On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:39:32PM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:24:37PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
3) Roll your own (de)serialization framework
That's what I did. It's a bit complicated, but I will try to describe it
within a couple of days. Right now all I
I looked at the Erlang syntax when I wrote my helper functions and I agree
it is very nifty. I didn't have the time to investigate how to do it in
Haskell but it would be disappointing if it (or something like it) couldn't
be done.
Dominic.
Mikael,
Thanks, that's very helpful and seems to be
Hello,
I just wanted to chime in with a 'me too' in regards to this whole
thread. Many of the programs I want to write involve reading and
writing binary file formats, and writing the code to actually do that
tends to be the ugliest, most error prone, boring part of the whole
program.
I have not
I have a question related to a program I'm writing. I have to
handle IP packets, which will be read into a buffer. What is the
best haskell idiom for getting access to the fields in the buffer?
There's no way in Haskell to define a datastructure with a particular memory
layout. (Strictly,
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +, Alastair Reid wrote:
To access the fields, you will need to write a bunch of functions to read them
out (and write them if you need). There's basically two approaches:
1) Write access functions in C and use the ffi interface to call them.
For
Alastair Reid wrote:
2) Write access functions in Haskell using functions from the Storable
class and associated libraries.
In this case, using Storable probably isn't worth the trouble, given
that
1. The 16- and 32-bit fields are in network byte order, whereas
Storable assumes host byte
On mån, 2004-01-26 at 12:22 -0500, Gregory Wright wrote:
Hi Dominic,
First, thanks to everyone for their help.
RIght now, I'm leaning toward Dominic's solution of a collection
of helper functions, but I have the feeling that we should be generating
them automatically. After all, given a
Mikael,
Thanks, that's very helpful and seems to be just the sort of
thing I'm looking for.
Greg
On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:05 PM, Mikael Brockman wrote:
You'll probably want to take a look at Erlang's so called ``bit
syntax''
at http://www.erlang.se/euc/00/bit_syntax.html. It's very nifty, and
I'd
Hi,
I have a question related to a program I'm writing. I have to handle IP
packets,
which will be read into a buffer. What is the best haskell idiom for
getting access
to the fields in the buffer?
The IP header has a number of fixed format fields. In C, I would define
a struct,
then cast the
