I want to group them with Network functions because traditionally these specific functions *are* in networking packages.
On *nix systems, the prototypes reside in <netinet/in.h>. On Windows they reside in <winsock2.h> and one must link against libws2_32. The package I have locally supports all platforms. It just does a foreign import of the function (and uses a preprocessor definition to pick the calling convention). One could make an argument to add these sorts of functions to Word and Int packages. /jve On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Chris Kuklewicz < hask...@list.mightyreason.com> wrote: > Are these going to be available on Windows or just Posix systems? > > And these are NOT performing network communication. They are bit > manipulations. > > I could imagine putting them in/under the Data.Word or Data.Bits more than > Network.* > > And they should also be made to work with the corresponding Foreign.C.Types > of CShort, etc. > > > John Van Enk wrote: > >> While working on a project, I discovered that hton[sl] and ntoh[sl] are >> missing from the networking libraries. It appears there was some >> justification for this, but I've fallen upon a few instances where things >> were *not* working as expected. (Specifically when newtype'ing around >> HostAddress.) >> >> As such, I'm putting together a few extra functions that I think should >> exist in Network somewhere. I'm calling the package Network.Util (but am >> open to changes). >> >> Currently this only has: >> >> * htons >> * htonl >> * ntohs >> * ntohl >> >> Before I drop this on hackage: >> >> 1. Is there a reason I shouldn't do this? >> 2. Are there other suggestions for missing functions? (preferably >> cross-platform suggestions) >> >> Thanks all. >> >> /jve >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > >
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