[Haskell-cafe] Parsing binary data.

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Tony Finch wrote:
> > http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html#4
> > The IP header example in the latter is a brilliant real-world example.
>
> Unfortunly this example does not handle bit and byte order.
> Take a look at Ada's representation clauses for such topics.

Erlang has support for byte endianness but not (it seems) bit endianness.
I'm currently kicking up a fuss about this on the erlang-questions list,
since while Erlang's bitwise big-endian layout works OK for network
protocols, it fails for typical little-endian C structures with bit
fields.

Thanks for the pointer to Ada.

Tony.
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