On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 22:35 -0500, wren ng thornton wrote: > In a similar vein, is there already a function available to give the > size of Word in bytes? Or should I write the usual Ptr conversion tricks > to figure it out?
How about this: (`div` 8) $ ceiling $ logBase 2 $ fromIntegral (maxBound :: Word) Could write an integral log_2 function to make it nicer :) - George
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