Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializingcustomobject

BoostPro Computing, http://boostpro.com Sent from coveted but awkward mobile device -- On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Jeff Flinn wrote:

So what happens if the some data member that is a base class pointer gets modified to point to some other instance of a derived class? Doesn't that change the 'structure'?

Yes of course. However, many MPI applications never need to do that. who-uses-oop-in-hpc-applications-anyway-ly y'rs Dave