[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary Endianness

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Adrian Neumann wrote:

> For example, the internet states, that the magic number, that puts 'BM'
> in the first two bytes of the file is 19778. But when I
> 
>> put (19778::Word16)
> 
> I get 'MB' instead.

Just use putWord16le instead.  There exist endian-specific versions of 
all of the word-level get and put functions.

	<b