On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
Your array contains machine-sized Ints, which in practice are likely
either 32-bit or 64-bit, while a ByteString is the equivalent of an
array or 8-bit values. So you'll need to somehow convert the Ints to
Word8s. Do you know if you need big or little endian?

A basic approach would be:

* Use freeze to convert your IOArray into an IArray
* Use putIArrayOf and put (from cereal) to generate a Putter value
* Use runPut to generate a ByteString from that


Thanks Michael,
Actually, I need an array of 8-bit words - Is that available?

Also, would be hard to do it without cereal? 

Regards,
Kashyap