CGAL users discussion list

[Philipp Moeller <>]

croatoan 
<>
 writes:

> hi to all.
>
> is there any way to work with all cgal types as if there were pod types.. eg
> a function that let me take a reference to internal representation as pod or
> something like that... i need pod for io on disk and operators << and >> are
> not an option  (only raw transfer of bits using write() and read())

Can you be a little bit more specific about the types? There are quite a
lot in CGAL and that is certainly different from type to type. A
concrete example would be helpful.

For most types I'm not even sure that this kind of serialization makes
sense.