Wu Yinghui, Freddie wrote:
Based on my own experience, boost binary archives are _not_ guaranteed to be portable between different hardware platforms.
well your experience agrees with the documentation. There are also
some hints in the documentation, though I do not immediately recall where it is mentioned. (The problem is mostly due to endian mismatch and datatype size difference, if my memory is right.)
What I did to counter this problem is to write a very simple subclass of binary archives and handle specifically the endian problem. The datatype size problem can be handled by serialization only types with specific size no matter on which platform, e.g. boost::int32_t, etc.
It sounds similar to the demo_portable_archive example included with B.S. Robert Ramey