Re: [Boost-users] boost::interprocess mapped_file binary compatibility

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::interprocess mapped_file binary compatibility
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-17 08:06:23

On 16/09/2015 19:50, Vladimir Kotlyar wrote:
>
> What, if anything, can be assumed about cross-platform and backwards binary
> compatibility of files generated using boost::ipc classes? I could not find
> any explicit statement in the IPC library docs.
> Thanks.

There is no guarantee, especially cross-platform. Each compiler and 
platform has a different ABI, it would be too hard to guarantee a common 
ABI. Between Interprocess versions, there is no guarantee but in 
practice format hasn't changed.

Ion