dizzy wrote:
On Friday 08 August 2008 13:08:57 Andrea Denzler wrote:
If you send a byte, a byte should arrive. If you send a wchar_t it has a different size on different platforms. If you send a integer it has different endianess (byte order). Maybe this last point is your issue. You have the same problem with file formats.
a possible solution could be to implement my own serializers for integral types, that use the very same bitwise pattern? (endiannes, size, etc.)
I think he was expecting that binary_archive is already fixed/portable binary layout. Apparently not (that is news for me too).
yes, basically that was my expectation, that I serialize something. store it, de-serialize it using the _same_ implementation, but maybe compiled for a different platform, and then it would work fine.
As for the other mentioned portable archive, I'm curious about integral encoding efficiency, Google's Protocol Buffers seem to be very efficient in that regard (both in bytes used for representation but also encoding/decoding operations speed) http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html
interesting. I'll take a look.. Akos