Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Richard Jones wrote:

> I know that libsndfile is written in C, but I'd be interested to know
> how much bitmatch
> (http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/bitmatch/html/Bitmatch.html) might or
> might not make a putative OCaml version easier to write.

The hard bit has almost nothing to do with programming language
and almost everything to do with WAVE (and AIFF and all the other
formats) being extremely poorly and/or loosely specified, with
over 100 data encoding variants and dozens of broken implementations
in the field.

Very early in the libsndfile development process I came up with
a good way of packing and unpacking the headers (ie effectively 
the same  functionality as bitmatch) and everything has been 
built on top of that.

Erik
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