As a matter of fact, I already ran into other issues with that solution I suggested. I didn't really give this much thought yet, but would it be an idea to pass the size of the type to save_impl, just as you do to load_impl, and then use that real size instead of a computed size? That way, the numbers take up the same number of bytes in the archive as they do in memory, but that seems more than acceptable. I also think it's a compatible change, because existing archives have the sizes stored in the archive. On re-save, the archive would of course change, but that's ok. Left-filling is something that crossed my mind as well, but it seems like going through a lot of trouble to save a few bytes. (Is 0xff the only problematic value?) I don't have a strong opinion about this, and it's not my speciality. I'll accept any solution you come up with :) Stefan On 6/23/06, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
But I'm wondering if the real solution is to left fill the value when loading with 0xff ?