[Boost-users] [serialization] simple binary archive problem

[Paul Graphov]

Hello Boost users!

I've upgraded to boost-1.44 and got a problem with binary serialization archives.

This code sample
http://pastebin.com/Uv465sGt

worked well with 1.43 but doesn't work with 1.44

This is a program that creates a struct, serializes it, deserealizes back and compares,
archive file name should be supplied as command line parameter.

After switching from binary_*archive to text_*archive it works well.

With binary_*archive it fails with

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

Stack trace is quite huge.

p.s.
[druid@druid-desktop tmp]$ uname -a
Linux druid-desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[druid@druid-desktop tmp]$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-13ubuntu2) 4.4.5 20100902 (prerelease)

[Jeff Flinn]

"Paul Graphov" <gra...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:AANLkTikWGPiBO=iSpFLCzBoCopV5Q...@mail.gmail.com...

Hello Boost users!

I've upgraded to boost-1.44 and got a problem with binary serialization archives.

This code sample
http://pastebin.com/Uv465sGt

does adding #include <boost/serialization/string.hpp> help?

 

Jeff

[Robert Ramey]

I just built and ran this on my msvc compiler and windows system. So
I don't know what to do about this.

As an aside. I"ve got ubuntu/linux installed which I'm using for
some stuff unrelated to boost. I don't have boost loaded on it. I've
having problems with gcc 4.3.2 installed on it. (Ubuntu bug 629092)
So there might be something there. I'm not very confident about it.

Robert Ramey

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[Thomas Suckow]

Robert, your computer clock is an hour fast.
You might also run a memtest for that gcc bug.

[Paul Graphov]

On my Fedora 13 laptop (amd64, gcc-4.5.1) it works fine even without this include with boost-144 and svn version... Tomorrow I'll try to add this line.

[Paul Graphov]

Hi,

On Ubuntu 10.10 beta box including boost/serialization/string.hpp didn't help.

What additional info can I provide?

[William Oquendo]

Hi, 

I am in Mac Os X, running g++ 4.5 and boost 1.44 . I have tested your code and it worked without problem. I would like to point out that recently I had some troubles with serialization, because I compiled boost with g++ 4.2 but I was compiling my code with g++ 4.5 (because I needed support for c++0x). Everything works again after recompiling boost with g++ 4.5.

Best regards, 

William 

[Robert Ramey]

William Oquendo wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am in Mac Os X, running g++ 4.5 and boost 1.44 . I have tested your
> code and it worked without problem. I would like to point out that
> recently I had some troubles with serialization, because I compiled
> boost with g++ 4.2 but I was compiling my code with g++ 4.5 (because
> I needed support for c++0x). Everything works again after recompiling
> boost with g++ 4.5.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> William

I should also mention (maybe I did already) that I had a problem
with the gcc 4.3.2 and gcc 4.2 shipped with Ubuntu 8.04. I filed
a bug report and no one has responded so it may well be that this
compiler/platform has some problems. Note that I also tested
your example on my MSVC system with no problems.

Robert Ramey

[Paul Graphov]

Hi,

I've updated gcc to this:

gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.1-5ubuntu1) 4.5.1

I've recompiled boost with it (and the test) and tried again but with no luck.

Minimal test looks like: (but throws another exception...)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

#include <boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/binary_iarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/string.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/vector.hpp>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

  if (argc != 2) {
    std::cout << "Usage: ser_test <temp_filename>" << std::endl;
    return -1;
  }

  std::vector<std::string> t1, t2;

  t1.push_back("");
 
  {
    std::ofstream ofs;
    ofs.exceptions(std::ofstream::badbit | std::ofstream::failbit);
    ofs.open(argv[1], std::ios::binary);
    boost::archive::binary_oarchive oa(ofs);
    oa << t1;
  }

  {
    std::ifstream ifs;
    ifs.exceptions(std::ifstream::badbit | std::ifstream::failbit);
    ifs.open(argv[1], std::ios::binary);
    boost::archive::binary_iarchive ia(ifs);
    ia >> t2;
  }

  unlink(argv[1]);
 
  assert(t1 == t2);
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


and my gdb session looks like:

[druid@druid-desktop tmp]$ g++ -g -O0 -Wall ser_test.cpp -o ser_test -lboost_serialization
[druid@druid-desktop tmp]$ gdb ./ser_test
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-ubuntu
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /home/druid/tmp/ser_test...done.
(gdb) run asdf
Starting program: /home/druid/tmp/ser_test asdf
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::archive::archive_exception'
  what():  input stream error

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff707fba5 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
64    ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
    in ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c
(gdb) i s
#0  0x00007ffff707fba5 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1  0x00007ffff70836b0 in abort () at abort.c:92
#2  0x00007ffff79230cd in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff79212e6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#4  0x00007ffff7921313 in std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#5  0x00007ffff792141e in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#6  0x00007ffff7bac53d in boost::archive::basic_binary_iprimitive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, char, std::char_traits<char> >::load(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&) ()
   from /usr/lib/libboost_serialization.so.1.44.0
#7  0x000000000040d015 in boost::archive::load_access::load_primitive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::basic_string<char> > (ar=..., t=...) at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:107
#8  0x000000000040cf2e in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_primitive::invoke<std::basic_string<char> > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:362
#9  0x000000000040ce67 in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::invoke<std::basic_string<char> > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:439
#10 0x000000000040cd7c in boost::archive::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::basic_string<char> > (ar=..., t=...) at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:592
#11 0x000000000040cc9e in boost::archive::detail::common_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<std::basic_string<char> > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/common_iarchive.hpp:66
#12 0x000000000040cbb9 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<std::basic_string<char> > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=..., version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/basic_binary_iarchive.hpp:70
#13 0x000000000040cad5 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, char, std::char_traits<char> >::load_override<std::basic_string<char> > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:50
#14 0x000000000040c848 in boost::archive::detail::interface_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::operator>><std::basic_string<char> > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/interface_iarchive.hpp:60
#15 0x000000000040c6f5 in boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive> (this=0x7fffffffdca0, ar=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/nvp.hpp:87
#16 0x000000000040c586 in boost::serialization::access::member_load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/access.hpp:101
#17 0x000000000040c473 in boost::serialization::detail::member_loader<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >::invoke
    (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0) at //usr/include/boost/serialization/split_member.hpp:54
#18 0x000000000040c371 in boost::serialization::split_member<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/split_member.hpp:69
#19 0x000000000040c26f in boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >::serialize<boost::archive::binary_iarchive> (this=0x7fffffffdca0, ar=...,
    file_version=0) at //usr/include/boost/serialization/nvp.hpp:89
#20 0x000000000040c16a in boost::serialization::access::serialize<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/access.hpp:118
#21 0x000000000040c067 in boost::serialization::serialize<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/serialization.hpp:69
#22 0x000000000040bf65 in boost::serialization::serialize_adl<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/serialization.hpp:128
#23 0x000000000040bdf3 in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_only::invoke<boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:373
#24 0x000000000040bc9f in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::invoke<boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:439
#25 0x000000000040bb80 in boost::archive::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:592
#26 0x000000000040b9d4 in boost::archive::detail::common_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/common_iarchive.hpp:66
#27 0x000000000040b699 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=..., version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/basic_binary_iarchive.hpp:70
#28 0x000000000040b183 in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, char, std::char_traits<char> >::load_override<boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (
    this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...) at //usr/include/boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:50
#29 0x000000000040aa58 in boost::archive::detail::interface_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::operator>><boost::serialization::nvp<std::basic_string<char> > const> (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/interface_iarchive.hpp:60
#30 0x000000000040a12a in boost::serialization::stl::archive_input_seq<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > >::operator() (this=0x7fffffffdd5e, ar=..., s=..., v=0, hint=...) at //usr/include/boost/serialization/collections_load_imp.hpp:64
#31 0x0000000000409b32 in boost::serialization::stl::load_collection<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> >, boost::serialization::stl::archive_input_seq<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > >, boost::serialization::stl::reserve_imp<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > > (ar=..., s=...) at //usr/include/boost/serialization/collections_load_imp.hpp:158
#32 0x0000000000409702 in boost::serialization::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::basic_string<char>, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/vector.hpp:65
#33 0x0000000000409437 in boost::serialization::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::basic_string<char>, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/vector.hpp:140
#34 0x0000000000409077 in boost::serialization::free_loader<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > >::invoke (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0) at //usr/include/boost/serialization/split_free.hpp:58
#35 0x0000000000408b0e in boost::serialization::split_free<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/split_free.hpp:74
#36 0x0000000000408801 in boost::serialization::serialize<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::basic_string<char>, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/vector.hpp:151
#37 0x00000000004083f6 in boost::serialization::serialize_adl<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=..., file_version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/serialization/serialization.hpp:128
#38 0x0000000000407eb4 in boost::archive::detail::iserializer<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > > >::load_object_data (this=0x616750, ar=..., x=0x7fffffffe160, file_version=0) at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:188
#39 0x00007ffff7ba61ac in boost::archive::detail::basic_iarchive::load_object(void*, boost::archive::detail::basic_iserializer const&) () from /usr/lib/libboost_serialization.so.1.44.0
#40 0x0000000000407626 in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_standard::invoke<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:387
#41 0x000000000040754f in boost::archive::detail::load_non_pointer_type<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::invoke<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:439
#42 0x0000000000407372 in boost::archive::load<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (ar=..., t=...) at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:592
#43 0x00000000004071e2 in boost::archive::detail::common_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/common_iarchive.hpp:66
#44 0x0000000000406f57 in boost::archive::basic_binary_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::load_override<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=..., version=0)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/basic_binary_iarchive.hpp:70
#45 0x0000000000406aab in boost::archive::binary_iarchive_impl<boost::archive::binary_iarchive, char, std::char_traits<char> >::load_override<std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/binary_iarchive_impl.hpp:50
#46 0x0000000000406446 in boost::archive::detail::interface_iarchive<boost::archive::binary_iarchive>::operator>><std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > > (this=0x7fffffffe120, t=...)
    at //usr/include/boost/archive/detail/interface_iarchive.hpp:60
#47 0x000000000040572c in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe6c8) at ser_test.cpp:37

I hope this is useful.

p.s. I switched to text_archive as preformance isn't critical at my project.

Thanks.

[William Oquendo]

Hi,

I would like to recommend adding a
ofs.close();
inside the first block of reading before trying to reopen the argv[1] file for reading in the second block. That rings some bells of an error I had previously. Please try it and let us know.

Best regards / Cordialmente,

--
William Oquendo
Phd Candidate
Simulation Of Physical Systems Group
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Linux User # 321481
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[Paul Graphov]

Hi,

It didn't help...
Standard says destructor should call close().