2011/5/20 Henning Thielemann
Simon Meier schrieb:
There are many providers of Writes. Each bounded-length-encoding of a standard Haskell value is likely to have a corresponding Write. For example, encoding an Int32 as a big-endian, little-endian, and host-endian byte-sequence is currently achieved with the following three functions.
writeInt32BE :: Write Int32 writeInt32LE :: Write Int32 writeInt32HE :: Write Int32
I would like to avoid naming all these encodings individually.
Maybe this one helps: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/storable-endian/0.2.4/doc/html/D... ?
Thanks. I didn't know of that package. It for sure provides some valuable input. Moreover, it pointed me to Antoine Latter's byteorder package (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/byteorder). I might use it, although I would rather have the ByteOrder determined at compile time. Shouldn't GHC provide some means to determine this, as it's compiling for a fixed architecture anyway? What experience have you made Antoine when you implemented this package? best regards, Simon