#7902: Add support for byte endianness swapping exposed as a primops ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: tab | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.7 Keywords: bswap endianness | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by tab): I've refreshed the patches once again (refactor the llvm code gen to remove the duplication, and record it with git commit to have a commitlog) BTW, is this feature request depends on the library submission or are they 2 "independent" proposals ? I haven't considered words not being multiple of 8. I don't think it would make sense to do endian swap on those types and it's harder to make a byteSwap : a -> a. I'm not sure Bits is going to be the best fit to expose any of this. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7902#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler