Hello Florian, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 12:44:14 AM, you wrote: FW> I'm toying a bit with Haskell and wondering what's the best way to FW> implement bit fiddling. Most of my applications involve serializing FW> and deserializing small blobs (IP packets, for instance), and after FW> browsing the GHC library documentation, I'm not sure which appraoch I FW> should use. That's why I'd appreciate pointers to sample code. you can find Binary.hs in the GHC 6.4 sources (sources of compiler itself) and close to this ByteStream library on my page http://freearc.narod.ru with help of my library all you need to deserialize data is just: (sign::Word32, block_type::Int16, crc::Word64) <- ByteStream.readMemory buf bufsize there is no such easy serialization, i just don't need it because my program uses only low-level functions, but i can add for you something like: (buf,bufsize) <- ByteStream.writeMemory (sign, block_type, crc) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com