From: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com>

On 9 January 2011 21:30, Henning Thielemann
<lemming@henning-thielemann.de>wrote:

>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Aaron Gray wrote:
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>  I am trying to work out how to use GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable,
>> Data.Storable.Endian, and
>> am looking for good examples of usage.
>>
>
> What do you intend to do with them?
>
>
An (ABC) ActionScript Byte Code backend for Haskell.

Basically I need to write little-endian binary to a file, and was wondering
the best way to do this; I need various types including a 24bit type.

You could use my "word24" package[1] (GHC only) to provide non-aligned 24-bit word and int types with Storable instances.  You should be able to write a binary instance (or whatever blaze-builder needs) fairly simply from this.  Little-endian only ATM, but BE could be added if necessary.

John Lato

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/word24