Hello Bulat, Sunday, May 28, 2006, 2:44:37 PM, you wrote:
type PtrLen a = (Ptr a, Int) encodePtrLen :: (Binary a) => a -> (PtrLen a -> IO b) -> IO b decodePtr :: (Binary a) => Ptr a -> IO a
Finally i've implemented the following (you then would use 'withForeignPtr' to work with contents of ForeignPtr): -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Encode/decode contents of memory buffer encodePtr :: (Binary a, Integral size) => a -> IO (ForeignPtr x, size) encodePtrLE :: (Binary a, Integral size) => a -> IO (ForeignPtr x, size) encodePtrBitAligned :: (Binary a, Integral size) => a -> IO (ForeignPtr x, size) encodePtrBitAlignedLE :: (Binary a, Integral size) => a -> IO (ForeignPtr x, size) encodePtr = encodePtr' openByteAligned encodePtrLE = encodePtr' openByteAlignedLE encodePtrBitAligned = encodePtr' openBitAligned encodePtrBitAlignedLE = encodePtr' openBitAlignedLE decodePtr :: (Binary a, Integral size) => Ptr x -> size -> IO a decodePtrLE :: (Binary a, Integral size) => Ptr x -> size -> IO a decodePtrBitAligned :: (Binary a, Integral size) => Ptr x -> size -> IO a decodePtrBitAlignedLE :: (Binary a, Integral size) => Ptr x -> size -> IO a decodePtr = decodePtr' openByteAligned decodePtrLE = decodePtr' openByteAlignedLE decodePtrBitAligned = decodePtr' openBitAligned decodePtrBitAlignedLE = decodePtr' openBitAlignedLE -- Universal function what encodes data with any alignment encodePtr' open thedata = do h <- createMemBuf 512 >>= open put_ h thedata vFlush h vRewind h (buf,size) <- vReceiveBuf h READING -- FIXME: MemBuf-implementation specific fptr <- newForeignPtr finalizerFree (castPtr buf) -- FIXME: also MemBuf-implementation specific return (fptr,size) -- Universal function what decodes data written with any alignment decodePtr' open ptr size = do h <- openMemBuf ptr size >>= open result <- get h vClose h return result -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com