Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:

On 10 January 2011 01:08, Antoine Latter wrote:

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Although the 24-bit access might be difficult - how are they aligned?

They are non aligned, they are actually used as jump offsets in the byte code.

Hah hah, yes. That would make a lot more sense.

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I guess with either of these you'd have to peek a Word8 and then a Word16 and then munge them together, depending.

Three put/getWord8's would probably be neater.

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http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary http://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-builder

Blaze looks a bit more specialized.

It has a larger surface area and more types, so it can be intimidating, but it has the module 'Blaze.ByteString.Builder.Word' which is an idealogical equivalent to the word primitives in Data.Binary.Builder. Antoine

Many thanks, Aaron