> Was talking to a group today who've also used boost::serialization 
> under the hood. Was wondering though - we did a test with binary 
> archives of a large ekf matrix a while ago (file dump on arm -> load 
> on intel) and failed. Found out later this was obscurely documented: 
> http://beta.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/libs/serialization/doc/archives.html#archive_models 
> (in the code snippet comment '// non-portable binary archive').
>
> Does this effect boost based messaging systems?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.

Hello Daniel,

Not sure about the specifics, but I have been running ROS on a gumstix, 
with data reception on my intel laptop and I have not noticed any data 
corruption. The data being sent was mostly floating point numbers.

Best.

-- 
Dr. Cedric Pradalier
http://www.asl.ethz.ch/people/cedricp