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

The MPI way of doing this, would be using MPI_Pack and MPI_Unpack. Of course that is C and might not be as convenient as something using C++ features. For a simple example see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/tutorial/mpiexmpl/src/bcast/C/pack/solution.html

Answer 2

Use an istrstream, which extracts from a char array. The header for this is <strstream>. 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.