Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] Fighting code bloat...

Robert Ramey wrote:

Are you building in release mode? This would be curcial.

Robert Ramey "Mats Eklund" wrote in message news:BAY12-F231EFFAD6B4FD65FFD2F6E8D770@phx.gbl... Hi,

what are the options to reduce executable footprint when using boost serialization library?

I just tried the boost serialization library because I'd like to store and load polymorphic classes on a stream, binary as well as xml. The library seems to meet these needs very well, however, I am working on an embedded platform with limited memory resources (executable size < 2MBs), and my small test case somewhat scares me: The resulting executable generated by GCC on Cygwin is (no optimizations) 1.5MB! Here is the source (based on an example from boost pointer container library):

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