Ruediger Berlich wrote:

Hi there,

I'm trying to prepare my application for the upcoming 1.36 Boost release and understand that there have been a number of substantial changes in the serialization code.

I understand the serialization chapter of the 1.36 documentation in such a way that it is recommended to use BOOST_SERIALIZATION_ASSUME_ABSTRACT(T) for compilers that cannot cope with the 1.36 BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT(T) macro. gcc 4.3.1 seems to be one of the compilers that need this - it emits an error for BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT in 1.36 .

Now I'm wondering whether BOOST_SERIALIZATION_ASSUME_ABSTRACT will work for other compilers, even if they could also deal directly with BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT.

it is intended to. Your should be able to use BOOST_SERIALIZATION_ASSUME_ABSTRACT or all compilers and have it use the best implemenation of "is_astract" available. Robert Ramey

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#if BOOST_VERSION <= 103500

BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT(GenEvA::GObject)

#else

BOOST_SERIALIZATION_ASSUME_ABSTRACT(GenEvA::GObject)

#endif /* Serialization traits */

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Thanks and Best Regards, Ruediger