Re: [Boost-users] Serialization with pointer to const object

26 Jul 2009

      Emil Dotchevski wrote:
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
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Emil Dotchevski wrote:
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
would be equivalent to
   ar >> *m_x
in which case the "const" would be violated.
At the time the object needs to be instantiated and read, instead of
dealing with a T const * p as:
p=new T;
ar >> *p;
what's wrong with:
T * tmp=new T;
ar >> * tmp;
p=tmp;
This reminded me of the same issue with shared_ptr<const T>
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3123

I'm not sure Robert is applying const correctness correctly here.

There is no "const violation" here. If there was, you'd see a const_cast
in the patch somewhere.

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Sohail Somani
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