Re: [Boost-users] boost::serialization binary archives not portable?

binary archives are designed to be fastest implementation of the archive concept. They are not portable. Currently, if you need portability, you'll have to use a text based archive such as text_?archive, or xml_archive. Robert Ramey Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

Hi,

I have a problem with boost::serialization in that I cannot transport binary archives between my macbookpro (osx 10.4 latest update) and my dell box at work (ubuntu gutsy with universe). As a test I just serialized a 10-byte binary object. Has anyone else been moving binary archives between different platforms?

here are the stacktraces up to the exception throws

Moving from ubuntu to osx I get this

#7 0x0001bcc8 in boost::throw_exceptionboost::archive::archive_exception () at libs/serialization/src/basic_serializer_map.cpp:52 #8 0x0000f104 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::init (this=0xbfffeec8) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iarchive.ipp:54 #9 0x0000f20b in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::init (this=0xbfffeec8, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:51 #10 0x0000f4a4 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::binary_iarchive_impl (this=0xbfffeec8, is=@0xbfffec30, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:80 #11 0x0001862d in boost::archive::binary_iarchive::binary_iarchive () at libs/serialization/src/basic_serializer_map.cpp:52 #12 0x00002bda in main ()

the other direction:

#4 0x00002b41bac2d773 in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0x00002b41bac2d85a in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #6 0x00002b41babc944a in std::__throw_length_error () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #7 0x00002b41bac0cda2 in std::string::resize () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #8 0x00000000004339de in boost::archive::basic_binary_iprimitive::load (this=0x7ffff015afe0, s=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iprimitive.ipp:96 #9 0x0000000000433a23 in boost::archive::load_access::load_primitive (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:96 #10 0x0000000000433a43 in

boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type::load_primitive::invoke (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:339 #11 0x0000000000433a63 in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type::invoke (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:414 #12 0x0000000000433a83 in boost::archive::load (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:561 #13 0x0000000000433aae in boost::archive::detail::common_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/common_iarchive.hpp:59 #14 0x0000000000433ad3 in boost::archive::array::iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, x=@0x7ffff015ad50, version=0) at ./boost/archive/array/iarchive.hpp:122 #15 0x0000000000433afb in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/basic_binary_iarchive.hpp:62 #16 0x0000000000433b23 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:45 #17 0x0000000000433b50 in boost::archive::detail::interface_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::operator>>std::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/interface_iarchive.hpp:63 #18 0x0000000000433b87 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::init (this=0x7ffff015afd0) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iarchive.ipp:52 #19 0x000000000040c8ee in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::init (this=0x7ffff015afd0, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:51 #20 0x000000000040c971 in binary_iarchive_impl (this=0x7ffff015afd0, is=@0x7ffff015b790, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:80 #21 0x000000000040c9db in boost::archive::binary_iarchive::binary_iarchive () at ./boost/archive/codecvt_null.hpp:48 #22 0x0000000000405518 in main ()

daniel