BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT(some_template<>) fails to load pointers

[Hajo Kirchhoff <boost@…>]

After upgrading from 1.56.0 to 1.65.1 loading pointers with xml_warchive to a template with default template arguments no longer works.

 BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS(some_template<>)
 
 ptr *some_base_class;
 ar & make_nvp("ptr", ptr);

Saving works okay, loading fails => the type cannot be found. The problem seems to be related to the <> characters in the default template argument of the BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT. Debugging the serialization code I see that the serialization internal key[] now reads some_template&lt<>. Note the "&lt" and the "<" character. I haven't checked 1.56.0, but my guess is that it was probably some_template&lt&gt.

At any rate, having &lt< is definitely wrong, as &lt is, of course, escaped <.

Changing BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT to BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_GUID and specifying the correct key seems to work okay.

[anonymous]

This is under Windows 7, Visual Studio 2013, x64 Compilation.