binary files in haskell

[Timmy Douglas]

Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> said:
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>Timmy Douglas wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone here has a solution for writing binary files
>> that works in hugs and ghc that doesn't require getting libs.
>
>I dont' know exactly about the current status of Hugs' libs, but I fear
>the answer to your question is "no".
>
>> I looked at this page:
>> http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc/docs/latest/set/sec-ioexts.html [...]
>
>... and that was exactly the right place, see section "Bulk transfers":
>(http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc/docs/latest/set/sec-ioexts.html#SEC-BULK-TRANSFERS)
>
>   hGetBuf       :: Handle -> Addr -> Int -> IO Int
>   hGetBufFull   :: Handle -> Addr -> Int -> IO Int
>
>   hPutBuf       :: Handle -> Addr -> Int -> IO Int
>   hPutBufFull   :: Handle -> Addr -> Int -> IO ()
>
>These action read/write a given amount of bytes to/from a buffer. There
>hasn't been much consensus about a higher level interface yet, but you
>can have a look at my variant sitting on top of this:

I saw this part but I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to open a
file and use these functions. So maybe I was looking for an example. I
want to try to write a compiler for some language in haskell, but I
don't know how to write binary files...

It looks like I use openFileEx but I can't get anything to compile
without seeing an example of it.

Thanks for the reply.