On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> wrote: > Am 17.11.13 13:32, schrieb Hubert Feyrer: >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Marc Balmer wrote: >>> I plan to import it and to make it available to both lua(1) and lua(4) >> >> I wonder if we really need to get all this into NetBSD, >> instead of moving it to pkgsrc somehow. > > Yes, we need it to handle structured binary data.
BTW, I'm developing bitwiser library with a similar purpose.It is not ready already, but it could be helpful to handle binary data without copying it from/to Lua string in the future. LHF has lpack library [1], it could be an alternative to Roberto's struct. [1] http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpack Regards, -- Lourival Vieira Neto