I want to group them with Network functions because traditionally these specific functions *are* in networking packages.
On *nix systems, the prototypes reside in <netinet/in.h>. On Windows they reside in <winsock2.h> and one must link against libws2_32.
The package I have locally supports all platforms. It just does a foreign import of the function (and uses a preprocessor definition to pick the calling convention).
One could make an argument to add these sorts of functions to Word and Int packages.
/jve
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Chris Kuklewicz
<haskell@list.mightyreason.com> wrote:
Are these going to be available on Windows or just Posix systems?
And these are NOT performing network communication. They are bit manipulations.
I could imagine putting them in/under the Data.Word or Data.Bits more than Network.*
And they should also be made to work with the corresponding Foreign.C.Types of CShort, etc.
John Van Enk wrote:
While working on a project, I discovered that hton[sl] and ntoh[sl] are missing from the networking libraries. It appears there was some justification for this, but I've fallen upon a few instances where things were *not* working as expected. (Specifically when newtype'ing around HostAddress.)
As such, I'm putting together a few extra functions that I think should exist in Network somewhere. I'm calling the package Network.Util (but am open to changes).
Currently this only has:
* htons
* htonl
* ntohs
* ntohl
Before I drop this on hackage:
1. Is there a reason I shouldn't do this?
2. Are there other suggestions for missing functions? (preferably
cross-platform suggestions)
Thanks all.
/jve
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