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 ## What are the limitations
 
-* Only objects with a flat meory layout, i.e. without pointers, references, virtual functions can be serialized
+* Only objects with a flat memory layout, i.e. without pointers, references, virtual functions can be serialized
 * The serialization format is not portable between different machines if
   * the endianness of the two machines differ
   * the C++ name mangling scheme differs (e.g: Windows has its own incompatible name mangling scheme)