[pooma-dev] Re: [PATCH] Back to using Cheetah::CHEETAH for serialization

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Jeffrey D. Oldham wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > This patch is a partial reversion of a previous patch that made us use
> > Cheetah::DELEGATE serialization for RemoteProxy.  It also brings us a
> > Cheetah::CHEETAH serialization for std::string, which was previously
> > missing.  One step more for the MPI merge.
> >
> > Tested together with all other MPI changes with serial, Cheetah and MPI.
> >
> > Ok?
>
> Yes.  Do we need more regression tests for this work to better ensure
> correctness?

Maybe, at least we get all non-POD types that are not explicitly
specialized wrong during serialization.  And I can tell you, such errors
are _very_ hard to find (happened for me for std::string and RemoteProxy).

Richard.