Hi, I have had a look at the example... Questions: 1. Apart from handling endianess what is really different from iostreams opened in binary mode? 2. Is/can the endianness BOM (byte order mark) written to the file automatically? Thanks Shams -- "Ares Lagae" <ares.lagae@cs.kuleuven.be> wrote in message news:f31613$i4g$1@sea.gmane.org...
I have developed a small library for binary I/O, called binary_iostreams, and I am using it in several of my own projects. I was wondering if there is interest for such a binary_iostreams library?
The binary_iostreams is a small library, very similar to the iostreams library. Compared to iostreams, the unformatted I/O operators remain, and the formatted I/O operators now do binary I/O. This makes the binary_iostreams library easy to use for anyone acquainted with the iostreams library. The binary_iostreams library allows to set the endianness of the output stream. Together with <cstdint>, this allows for portable binary I/O, although binary_iostreams does not claim to be a full blown serialization library.
Direct link to a motivating example: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/test.cpp
The library: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/binary_iostreams-0.1.tar...
The documentation: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ares/binary_iostreams/doc/html
Best regards,
-- Ares Lagae Computer Graphics Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~ares/
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