On 10/13/07, Henning Thielemann
Are there analogons to ByteString's Put and Get Monads to construct and disect binary data in a C struct for exchange with a C program?
The memory layout of structs depends on the ABI of system. You can take a guess and write code in the Get and Put monads. Your guess will probably work pretty well within a single architecture (e.g. x86 or x86-64). However, the portable way to do this is to get the information from the C compiler, which is the approach that c2hs[1] and friends use. I would recommend this unless there's some good reason to think otherwise. (see [2] for the exact hook) [1] http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/ [2] http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/c2hs/docu/c2hs-2.html#ss2.8 AGL -- Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org 650-283-9641