Re: [Boost-users] (de)serializing map<const A*>

Cheok Yan Cheng wrote:

Hi Robert,

I am using VC++ 2003

I must say, the following workaround just work :) :) :)

void load(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version) { void * xptr; xptr = & fiducialPairSearchRegionMap; map *mptr; mptr = static_cast >(xptr); ar >> *mptr; }

Btw, may I know what is the reason behind of using static_cast instead of reinterpret_cast (reinterpert_cast can be compiled too)? Is it by following a thumb of rule, "use static_cast if you can and use reinterpret_cast if you have to"?

I just used static cast because I thought we couldn't get reinterpret cast to work. (of course now I don't remember). When that failed I just "passed" the address through a void * by casting. I would hope that the compiler is smart enough to optimize all this stuff away.

Thank you very much!

You're welcome.

yccheok