[Haskell-cafe] Big endian vs little endian in Haskell land?

[Galchin, Vasili]

Hi Tom,

     What is an example of some software in Hackage that reads/writes things
like integers to persistent store ... i.e. where endian-ness is an issue?

Regards, Vasili

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Thomas DuBuisson <
thomas.dubuisson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, I've had to deal with this frequently.  Luckily, Data.Binary has
> functions like getWord32be, putWord64le, etc.  I've never had any
> problems and typically don't worry about the wire format after making
> the Binary instances.
>
> Or, if your question was what types of programs might be concerned you
> can include any program that writes data to a file where the file
> might be read on a different system and networking programs,
> obviously.
>
> Tom
>
> 2009/1/22 Galchin, Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> >         Are there applications that have to deal with both(!!!) big
> endian
> > and little endian on persistent store?? I.e. when marshalling out and
> > unmarshalling in "endian-ness" has to be considered??
> >
> > Regards, Vasili
> >
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