From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] DSL for handling parsing binary memory structures?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070614115159.GA3960@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517212157.GA20085@furbychan.cocan.org>
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:21:57PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> I wonder if anyone has thought about or developed a domain-specific
> language in OCaml for handling the processing of binary structures?
>
> I was thinking of writing something to make system calls into the Xen
> hypervisor. The main problem is that the hypervisor takes & returns
> binary structures which have very precise size / alignment
> requirements, bitfields, etc. (and the requirements change with
> versions of the hypervisor). It sounds like the ideal use for a DSL
> to describe the binary structure of each version of each call and
> automatically build accessors.
I had a play with some code to do this. A write-up of my experiment
is here:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/hvcalls/
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 21:21 Richard Jones
2007-05-17 21:30 ` [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2007-05-17 21:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-05-17 23:42 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-18 7:41 ` Christian Lindig
2007-05-18 14:56 ` Mike Furr
2007-05-18 14:44 ` Markus Mottl
2007-06-14 11:51 ` Richard Jones [this message]
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