On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Ares Lagae wrote:
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.
Hi Ares, I tried to use your library to build the message parsing/writing part of a Server, and failed, because I didn't find an easy way to simply write the resulting binary data into a std::vector<char> for sending it to a socket later on. What is the best way to solve that problem? Btw.: Your library fails to build on a gcc 4.3 pre-release because binary_istream.cpp doesn't include the limits header. Thanks a lot, Lukas -- Lukas Fittl <lfittl@ubuntu.com>