I was trying out the new Boost 1.56 beta and some of my serialization code fails to compile (they work fine with previous versions of Boost e.g. Boost 1.55). I am trying to do serialization of Eigen (http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/) matrices with following code: #include <Eigen/Core> #include <fstream> #include <boost/serialization/vector.hpp> #include <boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost/archive/binary_iarchive.hpp> //Boost Serialization of Eigen Matrix namespace boost { template<class Archive, typename _Scalar, int _Rows, int _Cols, int _Options, int _MaxRows, int _MaxCols> inline void serialize(Archive & ar, Eigen::Matrix<_Scalar, _Rows, _Cols, _Options, _MaxRows, _MaxCols>& t, const unsigned int file_version) { size_t rows = t.rows(), cols = t.cols(); ar & rows; ar & cols; if (rows * cols != t.size()) t.resize(rows, cols); ar & boost::serialization::make_array(t.data(), t.size()); } } //Simple helper for serialization to a file template <typename T> bool serialize(const T& data, const std::string& filename) { std::ofstream ofs(filename.c_str(), std::ios::out | std::ios::binary); if (!ofs.is_open()) return false; { // use scope to ensure archive goes out of scope before stream boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs); oa << data; } ofs.close(); return true; } //Simple helper for de-serialization from a file template <typename T> bool deSerialize(T& data, const std::string& filename) { std::ifstream ifs(filename.c_str(), std::ios::in | std::ios::binary); if (!ifs.is_open()) return false; { // use scope to ensure archive goes out of scope before stream boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs); ia >> data; } ifs.close(); return true; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { typedef Eigen::Vector3d VectorType; VectorType* vec = new VectorType(1, 2, 3); serialize(vec, "v4d.dat"); std::cout << "v4d =\n" << *vec << std::endl; VectorType* vec_in; deSerialize(vec_in, "v4d.dat"); std::cout << "v4d_in =\n" << *vec_in << std::endl; return 0; } The error in Visual studio 2013 says: boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp(237): error C2665: 'Eigen::PlainObjectBase<Eigen::Matrix<double,3,1,0,3,1>>::operator delete' : none of the 3 overloads could convert all the argument types 2> c:\users\abhijit\codes\installs\eigen\eigen-install\include\eigen3\eigen\src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h(132): could be 'void Eigen::PlainObjectBase<Eigen::Matrix<double,3,1,0,3,1>>::operator delete(void *,const std::nothrow_t &) throw()' 2> c:\users\abhijit\codes\installs\eigen\eigen-install\include\eigen3\eigen\src/Core/PlainObjectBase.h(132): or 'void Eigen::PlainObjectBase<Eigen::Matrix<double,3,1,0,3,1>>::operator delete(void *,void *) throw()' 2> while trying to match the argument list '(VectorType *, size_t)' 2> C:\Boost\boost-1_56_0_b1\boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp(224) : while compiling class template member function 'void boost::archive::detail::heap_allocation<T>::has_new_operator::invoke_delete(T *)' There is also the following note, but I cannot seem to understand this. // if compilation fails here, the likely cause that the class // T has a class specific new operator but no class specific // delete operator which matches the following signature. Fix // your program to have this. Note that adding operator delete // with only one parameter doesn't seem correct to me since // the standard(3.7.4.2) says " // "If a class T has a member deallocation function named // 'operator delete' with exactly one parameter, then that function // is a usual (non-placement) deallocation function" which I take // to mean that it will call the destructor of type T which we don't // want to do here. I want to understand this issue because this breaks a lot of existing code.