Dear all, we were transferring to Boost 1.41 but came across some serious issues in Boost.Serialization. The first is already adressed in a previous post, but now the M$ crt reports a memory leak when using Boost.Serialization in combination of pointers. I think it is located in 'basic_iarchive_impl::load_pointer' where an object is allocated and added to a global object ('object_id_vector') but never released. I know that we might end up here in an argument about the defintion of a memory leak, but the fact remains that the crt just reports it on program closure and until now we never had any reports of that type. If we have to think about every report dumped by the crt, it's just unacceptable. It's like a broken window syndrome; in the end u can not distinguish between false and correct reports. Code: #include <sstream> #include <boost\smart_ptr\make_shared.hpp> #include <boost\archive\xml_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost\archive\xml_iarchive.hpp> struct Foo { template <class Archive> void serialize(Archive& /*ar*/, const unsigned int /*version*/) { } }; int main() { #ifdef _DEBUG _CrtSetDbgFlag(_CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF | _CRTDBG_CHECK_ALWAYS_DF | _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF); #endif std::stringstream sstr; boost::shared_ptr<Foo> ptrFoo = boost::make_shared<Foo>(); { boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(sstr); oa << boost::serialization::make_nvp("v", ptrFoo); } boost::archive::xml_iarchive ia(sstr); ia >> boost::serialization::make_nvp("v", ptrFoo); return 0; }