Sorry for the noise. I retract my posting. I probably still have a question, but it's not the one below. Deane Yang wrote:

The code below won't compile for me using VC8. Can someone explain? I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, but I'm too dumb to know what.

#include #include <iostream> #include <fstream>

struct Object { char* ptr; };

int main (int argc, char* argv[]) { try { std::cout << "Saving portfolio to archive...\n"; Object object; object.ptr = new char[10]; for (int i= 0; i < 10; ++i) { object.ptr[i] = 'i'; } std::ofstream ofs(filename); assert(ofs.good()); boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(ofs); const Object& obj(object); oa << BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(obj); } catch (const xml_schema::exception& e) { std::cerr << e << std::endl; return 1; } }