also sprach Robert Ramey
Alternatively, or additionally, within the cyclic object themselves, it would be nice if it was possible to serialize the pointer without serializing its contents, i.e. creating only an index in the archive, making it up to the user to make sure that the object is later serialized with that index to adress it.
That's more or less how the serialization of pointers works now - and that's why it DOES work.
If I end up not serialising the pointee object, the framework does serialise it automatically, right? That is to say: { A a; a.x = 5; ar << &a; } //... A *b ar >> b; assert(b->x == 5) should work just fine, right? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! spamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net "men always want to be a woman's first love. women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance." -- oscar wilde