On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Don Stewart
<dons@galois.com> wrote:
leimy2k:
> I actually need little endian encoding... wondering if anyone else hit this
> with Data.Binary. (because I'm working with Bell Lab's 9P protocol which does
> encode things on the network in little-endian order).
>
> Anyone got some "tricks" for this?
Yes!
There are big, little and host-endian primitives in the Get/Put monads.
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.5.0.1/doc/html/Data-Binary-Put.html#v%3AputWord16le
You can use these to build encoders directly.
Cool... I just have to write my own encoder and decoder now.
As a request could we get encodeLe decodeLe for a later version of this library? :-) That'd be totally awesome.
Cheers,
Don