Re: [Boost-users] boost::serialization - portable_binary_oarchive -What are the first 2 bytes?

j.c. wrote:

std::stringstream ss_out; // These are either 2 x 8 byte integers or 1 x 16 byte integer, prob the later. Are they signed or unsigned, etc??? ss_out << ss.str()[0]; ss_out << ss.str()[1];

Good morning, I suspect it to be the serialization library version. It's the same information the native binary_oarchive generates when called with the no_header flag. Christian