Dear Robert, On Apr 17, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:
Matthias Troyer wrote:
2. which functions do I need to implement in my archive class to skip writing the standard preamble that your archives write? Is it just the init function or are there more functions?
Depending on the implementation traits for each class, there may be a preamble written by the serialization library. This contains information such as version number, class id info, perhaps export key, etc required by the s library to reconstruct a faithful reproduction of the original data. If there is a preamble, there is no information in that can be discarded and still reproduce the original data.
I was wondering about the preamble written at the start of the archive, not the per-class information. Matthias