Ibrahim Beicker wrote:
> I had to port a multi-process application to 64 bits and I rely on
> boost serialization to send messages, that are maps of key-values,
> into Microsoft queues to the other modules. It works just fine into
> 32 bits but when I run it in 64 the constructor throws an "invalid
> signature" exception
>
> void Message::fromBinary( const std::string& data )
> {
> std::stringstream ss;
> ss << data;
> boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ss); //exception here
>
> ia >> *this;
> }
>
> I managed to debug into basic_binary_iarchive.ipp and this 'if' @
> line 72 fails
>
> if(file_signature != BOOST_ARCHIVE_SIGNATURE())
>
> boost::serialization::throw_exception(archive_exception(archive_exception::invalid_signature));
>
> inside this file I have no debug symbols so I don't know the values
> of 'file_signature' and 'BOOST_ARCHIVE_SIGNATURE' or where
> BOOST_ARCHIVE_SIGNATURE is defined.
>
> Some additional information: the modules are all running on the same
> machine, on windows 7 64-bits, and compiled by visual studio 2010
> x64 including static boost libraries 1.45.
>
> What causes this and how can I fix it?
>