Re: [boost] [serialization] use of unsigned int instead of size_type

troy d. straszheim wrote:

template<class Archive, class OStream> BOOST_ARCHIVE_OR_WARCHIVE_DECL(void) basic_binary_oprimitive<Archive, OStream>::save(const char * s) { std::size_t l = std::strlen(s); this->This()->save(l); save_binary(s, l); }

One can fix this by implementing one's own portable binary primitives (which is what we've done), but that does involve duplicating a lot of library code in order to change a few lines. The special type for collection size (if applied consistently) seems cleaner.

I'm curious as to what problem using std::size_t created. That is, why did you feel you had to change it. Robert Raamey