Hi all, I'm new to BOOST and need help with this kind of problem of pointers serialization: class A{ public: A(int *anInt):m_pi(anInt){} ~A(){} private: int *m_pi; }; class B{ public: B(int *anInt):m_a1(anInt),m_a2(anInt){} ~B(){} private: A m_a1; A m_a2; }; int main() { int i=1; B b(&i); //serialize b i=2; //serialize b //de-serialize b expected i = 1 and b.m_a1=b.m_a2=1 //de-serialize b expected i = 2 and b.m_a1=b.m_a2=2 } Now, assuming that there are serialization functions for class A and B I'd like to serialize object b swice with track never so that when de-serializing b I'd like b to contain a pointer to the location of i. The problem is that when I de-serializing b I notice that b doesn't pointer to the location of i anymore but to another location. I need this for serializing of communication, so I need to save all the data trough a pointer and read the data back step by step for preprocessing to the same location in the memory. Is there anything I can do to overcome this problem with pointers? Thank you in advance, Anna. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.