Re: [Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

Ákos Maróy writes:

I'm looking at the portable_binary_archive contents you pointed me to, and it seems to be a bit problematic. I see it was written by people mostly using MS Visual Studio (I guess from the #pragma once line), and it seems the code through a lot of warnings under gcc. a lot of signed / unsigned comparison warnings for example, or checking if an unsigned value is negative. (it also checks on the BOOST_VERSION macro without including boost/versio.hpp).

I see. I suppose you are right, original author used this code only with MSVC.

I wonder how stable this code is, and if it is really used among multiple systems. Are you actually using this code?

I don't. Cross-platform binary serialization is requested/discussed quite frequently on boost-users mailing list and as far as I know, there are only 2 implementations available: one in the file fault and another one in serialization/examples, former being superior. That's why I pointed you to the version from file vault. For more info you might want to search boost-users archive for more info or contact the author of the code (Christian Pfligersdorffer ). Roman Perepelitsa.