Andreas Marth wrote:
low_l :: Word8 = fromIntegral (len .&. 0xFFFF)
low_h :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 8 .&. 0xFFFF)
high_l :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 16 .&. 0xFFFF)
high_h :: Word8 = fromIntegral (shiftR len 24 .&. 0xFFFF)
Hi -
I just noticed the mask should be changed to 0xFF for the BSTR8 version
above.
Also, I'm not actually sure if a mask is needed at all. I just used one to
make sure there would be no chance of an overflow exception being thrown,
but the Haskell report doesn't seem to specify anything at all about the
behaviour of (fromIntegral) when converting between types of different
sizes.
Perhaps someone on the list can clarify whether or not a mask is needed ie
is fromIntegral allowed to throw exceptions or does it always just silently
discard unwanted bits of the argument being converted?
Thanks, Brian.
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