Avi Bahra wrote:

Jeff Wrote:

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Are the underlying streams opened as binary?

Jeff

Yes, This is how I save, the the restore is analogous. Using boost 1.39

void save(bool binary) const {

if (binary) { std::ofstream ofs( fileName_.c_str(), ios::binary ); boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa( ofs ); oa << *this; } else { std::ofstream ofs( fileName_.c_str() ); boost::archive::text_oarchive oa( ofs ); oa << *this; } }

Ok I was trying eventually to use the portable binary archive, however I suspect that would crash as well. I will try to create a standalone program that shows the crash using the binary archive first.

So are you saying you get a "Crash" when saving? Are you sure it "crashes" or are you failing to catch an exception being thrown by the serialization library? Can you stream out to an ostringstream? Jeff