From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CAFBB84 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 18:32:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsgCAKL2L0hQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSNAEBAQ8gmHA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,505,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12398858" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 May 2008 18:32:05 +0200 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m4IGW54m004653 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 18:32:05 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsgCAKL2L0hQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSNAEBAQ8gmHA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,505,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12398857" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 18 May 2008 18:32:05 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jxlno-0003WB-5I for caml-list@inria.fr; Sun, 18 May 2008 17:32:04 +0100 Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:32:03 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: ANNOUNCE: bitmatch 1.0 Message-ID: <20080518163203.GE29771@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 48305A05.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 ocaml:01 integers:01 big-:01 alignment:01 lib:01 lgpl:01 ocaml:01 1.0:98 parsing:01 exception:01 strings:01 arbitrary:02 subsets:02 unsigned:02 I'm pleased to announce the first stable release of bitmatch, version 1.0. We have a NEW home page: http://code.google.com/p/bitmatch/ Bitmatch adds Erlang-style bitstring matching and construction syntax to OCaml. It makes parsing binary files, formats and protocols exceptionally simple. It has numerous features including 1-64 bit integers, strings, efficient subsets of bitstrings, big- and little- endianness, signed and unsigned types, variable-width fields, and fields with arbitrary bit-level alignment. You might also want to check out our tool virt-df which uses bitmatch to parse a wide variety of disk formats: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ The source code for the diskimage library is a good place to see bitmatch in real world usage: http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-df--devel?cmd=manifest;manifest=64ac2a858070b95bc02445b9bb966786e84bebe7;path=/lib/ Bitmatch is available under the GNU LGPL version 2 or later with the usual OCaml linking exception. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat