On Dec 26, 2005 08:55 PM, Donald Bruce Stewart
pupeno:
It seems I have found a hole in Haskell... :( Before I start to develop a library with functions such us those on http://haskell.org/hawiki/BinaryIo (hGetWord8, hGetWord16le, hGetWord16be, etc), is there some reliable library that can help me ?
Use NewBinary, as suggested by that wiki page :)
Some caveats. The NewBinary library contains two things: (1) A uniform interface for reading and writing binary files and binary memory, including bitwise reading/writing. (2) A Binary class for serialization/deserialization While it is tempting to use the functions in the Binary class (put/get), it is important to realize that they do not care about big endian vs little endian. Nor do they attempt to be compatible with equivalent C data types. For example, Char is stored as 4 bytes. However, while the Binary class in NewBinary may not be appropriate, the uniform interface to binary files/memory could be a good foundation for building hGetWord16le, hGetWord16be, etc. If you submitted a module that added these functions, I would be glad to update the archive. j.