Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary and little endian encoding

14 May 2009


      leimy2k:
...
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Don Stewart  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.
Oh, you mean entirely different instances for all the current ones, that
use LE encodings? 

-- Don