Yes, but I am trying to serialize a char*, not a const char*. Is it possible?
Not directly. If you cannot reengineer the use of the char* do something like this: (apologies if you know this already)
// char* m_POD; a pointer to plain old char data
// size_t sizePOD; // how big is the POD data
//...
if (Archive::is_saving::value)
{
// create a vector and fill with POD
std::vector<char> vec(m_POD,m_POD+sizePOD);
// now serialize
ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(vec);
}
else if (Archive::is_loading::value)
{
std::vector<char> vec;
ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(vec);
// now handle deallocation of existing POD
// reallocation and copying from vec
if (m_POD)
{
delete m_POD;
}
// allocate POD buffer
m_POD = new char[vec.size()];
// copy from deserialized vector
std::copy(vec.begin(),vec.end(),m_POD);
}
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: Ariel Brunetto
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problems with char* serialization
Yes, but I am trying to serialize a char*, not a const char*. Is it possible?
Thank you,
Ariel
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Igor R.