[Haskell-cafe] Serializing with alignment

[Ben Franksen]

Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 09:33 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> I want to implement a binary protocol that, unfortunately, has some
>> alignment restrictions.
>> [snip]
> 
> I don't think such thing currently exists.

Feared so.

> Not sure that's any help to you (and definitely not answering your 
> binary question), but I rolled my own 'put' for a dbus implementation:
> https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-udbus/blob/master/Network/DBus/Wire.hs

Interesting. Seems you also needed aligned read/write. You are using a state 
monad, too. Maybe I should just go ahead and wrap a StateT over the PutM 
from binary, at least this lets me re-use the efficient concatenation that's 
built into binary's PutM (or rather, the Builder below it).

Thanks
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Ben Franksen
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