The system includes text and xml archives which are portable. Also included are native binary archives which are not portable accross platforms. There is an example of a portable binary archive. It is incomplete in that doesn't include code for floating point number. Another difficulty in making a good implementation of this is the lack of portable method of detecting and re-creating different kinds of nan's So you're in new territory here. Good Luck Robert Ramey Leon Mergen wrote:

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:12 -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:

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There might be differences in size of certain types like std::size_t or others.

Ok, and I assume if I would want to make the x86 data files readable on an amd64 architecture, I would have to write my own conversion utility, or simply start switching over to textual storage ?

As in, there's no such thing provided by Boost.org ?

Regards,

Leon Mergen