Hmmmm - a very interesting question I've never considered. All the serialization tests do the following: create a structure, serialize to a file, load the file to a new structure and check for equality. I would expect that in your test text1.doc would be identical to text2.doc. UNLESS you have have floats/double in your classes. In general, it cannot be guarenteed that there is a one-to-one correspondence between floatiing point values as represented by binary in ram to text numbers represented as decimal based text. So in this case I would expect text1.doc to not be identical to text2.doc. There may be other cases, but that's all that occurs to me right now. Robert Ramey Arunava Saha wrote:
Dear experts,
I am using boost serialization library to serialize a huge database (has a lot of stl containers, shared pointers etc. ). I have a general question regarding serialization lib of boost. Suppose I have serialized a database in text format (say, text1.doc), cleared the existing database, import the exported one back and re-export (say, text2.doc). Now, should I see any difference between text1.doc and text2.doc? Actually I am seeing some difference. If I shouldn't, can someone point me to the common mistakes one can do for which it differences can take place?
Thanks in advance,
Arunava.
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