Hi Anthony! This helped! I could solve my problem! Thank you very much!!! Best regards, Sabine On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Anthony Foiani <tkil@scrye.com> wrote:
Sabine B <sabine565@gmail.com> writes:
I'm a newbie with boost and I'm struggling with objects in shared memory. [...]
Objects of MyType should be shared between processes in shared memory. I have no problem to put and extract the objects from shared space. But I'm struggling with the const char* pointers.
Is there a reason that you are prefering 'const char *' over C++ strings (either std::string or, more to the point, boost::interprocess::string? The latter are explicitly designed to live in shared memory, while std::string makes assumptions which break when shared across different process address spaces.
We just recently had a very closely related thread on this topic; it might be helpful to you:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/72140
I included some working code as well as specific links into the Boost.Interprocess documentation.
Hope this helps!
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