object tracking not working when pointer is serialized before class member

[anonymous]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation of Boost.Serialization. I haven't found anything in the documentation saying that this limitation exists though. it's certainly unexpected if you don't think about serilization internals:

struct B{

Serializable

};

struct A{

B *bptr;

B b;

template<class Archive>

void serialize(Archive &ar,unsigned int){

ar & bptr; error

ar & b;

}

};

if bptr is pointing to b, the object can not be loaded correctly. I'm not sure what actually happens, I guess there is a duplicate created, but bptr isnt equal to &b after serialization, as it was before serialization.

b must be serialized before bptr for this to work.

testcase attached.

[anonymous]

test

[anonymous]

my mistake. archive_exception is thrown on serialization.