>     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.
>
>
> Oh indeed - ros has their own serialisation code, not boost. We've had 
> no problem with floats/doubles on messages between an armv5/armv6 core 
> and intel machines as well. Couple of hitches with rpc stuff, but 
> that's a different issue.

Sorry for the confusion, I had always thought that ros::serialization 
was a wrapper around boost::serialization.
Thanks for correcting.

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