17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
6:47 a.m.
On Nov 16, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Caleb Epstein wrote:
On 11/16/05, Matthew Vogt <mattvogt@warpmail.net> wrote:
Matthias Troyer wrote:
I actually have a portable binary archive based on XDR format, but it
works only on UNIX operating systems, and that's why I have not submitted it to Boost.
Just out of interest, why is the method used platform-specific?
I'm guessing that Matthias' implementation uses the standard xdr_* functions (see man 3 xdr) to do the dirty work. I doubt these are available on Windows. Matthias?
Indeed, that's what I did, but we already have an idea for a nice portable native C++ implementation. It is just a matter of finding time now. Matthias