id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 1089 missing boost::serialization::make_nvp in pointer container library anonymous Thorsten Ottosen "The serialization support of the pointer container library is not complete. If one tries to serialize a pointer container (such as ptr_vector, with serializable T) to one of the xml-archive-types compilation will fail in an assertion failure: {{{ boost/archive/basic_xml_oarchive.hpp:83: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE’ }}} As stated in the coment in boost/archive/basic_xml_oarchive.hpp this is due to missing nvp-wrappers in all serialization functions at least in boost/ptr_container/detail/reversible_ptr_container.hpp " Bugs closed To Be Determined ptr_container Boost 1.34.0 Problem fixed serialization pointer container