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<h1 align="center">Serialization</h1>
<h2 align="center">Release Notes</h2>
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<dl class="index">
<dt><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#recent_improvements">Differences from version 1.32</a></dt>
<dt><a href="#todo">Pending Issues</a></dt>
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This is the Boost 1.33 Serialization Library.
There are currently no known bugs. However, due to compiler/library quirks and or
bugs, some tests fail with some combinations of compilers and libraries.
<h2><a name="requirements"></a>Requirements</h2>
This library requires Boost version 1.32 or later.
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The serialization library uses the boost spirit package to load XML archives.
We have found that all tests pass using spirit 1.6x. Spirit 1.8 and higher does not work with
older compilers - specificallly MSVC 6, Borland and GCC < 3.0.
If you are using one of these compilers, you may download a version
of spirit 1.6 <a href="http://spirit.sourceforge.net/index.php?doc=download/index.html">here</a>.
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set SPIRIT_ROOT=c:/spirit16
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If you're not using bjam and the Jamfile to build the library, be sure that
the directory which contains the version of spirit you plan to use is placed
at the front of the list of include paths.
<h2><a name="recent_improvements"></a>Differences from Boost 1.32</h2>
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<li>Dynamic Linking Library (DLLs and shared libraries) for platforms which support them. See
<a href="../../../more/getting_started.html#auto-link">Automatic Linking on Windows</a>.
<li>Implementation of auto-link for compilers which can support this.
<li>Better support for <em>Argument Dependent Lookup</em> and two-phase lookup.
This results in simpler rules regarding the placing of serialization specializations
namespaces.
<li>Enhanced documentation to help explain usage of the above.
<li>Adjustments to improve support for less conformant compilers.
<li>Miscelleanous bug fixes.
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<h2><a name="todo"></a>Pending issues</h2>
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<li>Compile, and test on more platforms
<li>implement <code>is_virtual_base&lt;T&gt;</code> to automatically
eliminate redundancy in virtual base class serialization.
<li>currently can't serialize through a pointer an object a of class
that implements its own <code style="white-space: normal">new/delete</code> operators.
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Aside from the above, there are a number of issus related to specific platforms.
These are listed in <a href="implementation.html#othercompilerissues">Specific Compiler/Library Issues</a>.
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