"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
I was expecting to see your enhancements for arrays to get included and for collection_size (or whatever) to be part of this. I'm not sure what status of this is and/or if it conflicts with the recent feature freeze.
IMO the size_type change should be considered a bugfix, as it was not possible to portably serialize collections without it.
The change is not trivial. Using a size_t typedef means that program A can write an unsigned int and program B can read an unsigned long. This will appear to work at first because the serialization library doesn't include archives where this is significant. Yet.
I don't know exactly how to interpret your remarks. It sounds like you're describing the status quo here, which would seem to argue that the change is necessary. For the record, I didn't claim it was a trivial change, only that it should be considered a bugfix and not a new feature. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com