Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Serializing const* to serialized data

6 Nov 2009

      On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Noah Roberts  wrote:
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In article ,
emildotchevski@gmail.com says...
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Noah Roberts  wrote:
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Consider something like so:
struct A
{
 ...?
};
struct B
{
 std::list<A> items;
};
struct C
{
 A const* ptr_to_item_in_B_items;
};
I want to recover the structure layout.  If a C had a pointer to A item
X in C then when it reloads it should point at X again.
Sure but what do you imagine in terms of a serialization library?

Obviously, *you* could serialize your pointer, for example as index in
the list, but all that the serialization library sees is a pointer. It
has no way of knowing that it points an element within the list, it
has no way of knowing that there is a list even. But maybe I'm missing
something so I asked how would that work.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode