On Nov 15, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
And BTW, I think that making a portable binary archive (including XDR, CDR, etc variants) is MUCH harder than it first appears. And that's even BEFORE one thinks of adding in a bitwise collection optimization. So that's why I left portable_?archive as an example. Some people have corrected its handling of endian-ness for some compilers so I guess someone is using it though I have no idea whom. Also ralf-k (I forget his whole name) make a very nice suggestion about how to do floating point numbers in a portable binary way.
I actually have a portable binary archive based on XDR format, but it works only on UNIX operating systems, and that's why I have not submitted it to Boost. Matthias