[Haskell-cafe] Reading Word16, Word32, etc. from a FPS

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

joelr1:
> Folks,
> 
> How would I implement reading of big/little-endian shorts, longs,  
> floats, etc. from a fast packed string?

Have a look at Binary.hs. You've just got bytes in the FastStrings, so
Data.Bits might help too.  Binary.hs is in GHC's utils/, iirc. Possibly
New Binary would also be useful (the cabalised library).

Good idea btw!

-- Don