[Haskell-cafe] Bug in Network package

Florian Hofmann fhofmann at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Apr 10 22:31:18 CEST 2013


Ah ok ... thanks for the clarification


2013/4/10 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Florian Hofmann <
> fhofmann at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
>> I might be mistaken, but is there a bug in the Show instance of PortNum?
>>
>
> Not a bug, an annoying misdesign (IMO). A PortNum is actually in network
> byte order. If you extract it, you get the original port; if you simply
> show it, you see it byteswapped on little-endian platforms.
>
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