Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

I have a problem with boost::serialization in that I cannot transport binary archives between my macbookpro (osx 10.4 latest update) and my dell box at work (ubuntu gutsy with universe). As a test I just serialized a 10-byte binary object. Has anyone else been moving binary archives between different platforms?

Hi Daniel, the binary archive that comes with boost::serialization generates platform dependent files. If you are interested in cross-platform data exchange you'd have to use a text archive or try my portable binary archive which you find at http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault in the serialization folder. I'd be very much interested if it works for your setting - which is 64-bit PowerPC and 32-bit x86? Just try it out and share your experience. Christian Pfligersdorffer

binary archives are designed to be fastest implementation of the archive concept. They are not portable. Currently, if you need portability, you'll have to use a text based archive such as text_?archive, or xml_archive. Robert Ramey Daniel Oberhoff wrote:

Hi,

I have a problem with boost::serialization in that I cannot transport binary archives between my macbookpro (osx 10.4 latest update) and my dell box at work (ubuntu gutsy with universe). As a test I just serialized a 10-byte binary object. Has anyone else been moving binary archives between different platforms?

here are the stacktraces up to the exception throws

Moving from ubuntu to osx I get this

#7 0x0001bcc8 in boost::throw_exceptionboost::archive::archive_exception () at libs/serialization/src/basic_serializer_map.cpp:52 #8 0x0000f104 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::init (this=0xbfffeec8) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iarchive.ipp:54 #9 0x0000f20b in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::init (this=0xbfffeec8, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:51 #10 0x0000f4a4 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::binary_iarchive_impl (this=0xbfffeec8, is=@0xbfffec30, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:80 #11 0x0001862d in boost::archive::binary_iarchive::binary_iarchive () at libs/serialization/src/basic_serializer_map.cpp:52 #12 0x00002bda in main ()

the other direction:

#4 0x00002b41bac2d773 in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0x00002b41bac2d85a in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #6 0x00002b41babc944a in std::__throw_length_error () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #7 0x00002b41bac0cda2 in std::string::resize () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #8 0x00000000004339de in boost::archive::basic_binary_iprimitive::load (this=0x7ffff015afe0, s=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iprimitive.ipp:96 #9 0x0000000000433a23 in boost::archive::load_access::load_primitive (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:96 #10 0x0000000000433a43 in

boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type::load_primitive::invoke (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:339 #11 0x0000000000433a63 in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type::invoke (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:414 #12 0x0000000000433a83 in boost::archive::load (ar=@0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:561 #13 0x0000000000433aae in boost::archive::detail::common_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/common_iarchive.hpp:59 #14 0x0000000000433ad3 in boost::archive::array::iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, x=@0x7ffff015ad50, version=0) at ./boost/archive/array/iarchive.hpp:122 #15 0x0000000000433afb in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/basic_binary_iarchive.hpp:62 #16 0x0000000000433b23 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::load_overridestd::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:45 #17 0x0000000000433b50 in boost::archive::detail::interface_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::operator>>std::string (this=0x7ffff015afd0, t=@0x7ffff015ad50) at ./boost/archive/detail/interface_iarchive.hpp:63 #18 0x0000000000433b87 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchiveboost::archive::binary_iarchive::init (this=0x7ffff015afd0) at ./boost/archive/impl/basic_binary_iarchive.ipp:52 #19 0x000000000040c8ee in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl::init (this=0x7ffff015afd0, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:51 #20 0x000000000040c971 in binary_iarchive_impl (this=0x7ffff015afd0, is=@0x7ffff015b790, flags=0) at ./boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:80 #21 0x000000000040c9db in boost::archive::binary_iarchive::binary_iarchive () at ./boost/archive/codecvt_null.hpp:48 #22 0x0000000000405518 in main ()

daniel