On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote: > * Tony Finch wrote: > > http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html#4 > > The IP header example in the latter is a brilliant real-world example. > > Unfortunly this example does not handle bit and byte order. > Take a look at Ada's representation clauses for such topics.
Erlang has support for byte endianness but not (it seems) bit endianness. I'm currently kicking up a fuss about this on the erlang-questions list, since while Erlang's bitwise big-endian layout works OK for network protocols, it fails for typical little-endian C structures with bit fields. Thanks for the pointer to Ada. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
