Serialization without Boost.Serialization

Question

I\'m trying to implement a simple serialization/deserialization method for my code to be able to pass an object over the network using MPI. In an ideal world I would have us

Answer 1

Use an istrstream, which extracts from a char array. The header for this is . And, yes, formally it's deprecated in the C++ Standard. The committee indulged in a great deal of wishful thinking in its early days. istrstream is not going to go away.