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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8881CBBAF for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:31:00 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag4CAKM9UkjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACSHQEBAQ8gm3I X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,639,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="13951275" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2008 18:31:00 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m5DGUx7o010351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:31:00 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag4CAGg9UkhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSHQEBAQ8gm2M X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,639,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12009048" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2008 18:30:59 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K7CAy-0000DT-RY for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:30:56 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:30:56 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: ANNOUNCE: Bitmatch 1.9 released Message-ID: <20080613163056.GA32681@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 discorde with ID 4852A0C3.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; unions:01 syntax:01 4096:01 printf:01 printf:01 sda:98 sda:98 constants:01 unix:01 structures:02 descr:02 redhat:03 languages:03 let:03 let:03 This is a preview/testing release: http://code.google.com/p/bitmatch/ The major change is the introduction of persistent patterns. This allows you to write importer tools, so you can import bitstring descriptions from your own languages or other sources. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/bitmatch/html/Bitmatch_persistent.html I'm working on a C language importer, which will be able to import C structures, unions, enums and constants (eg. out of header files). This will be based on bitmatch & CIL, and there's an early prototype included in the 1.9 release. The syntax for this is simple and lightweight. For example, to implement the equivalent of the 'df' command (showing free blocks on a filesystem) you could do something like this: (* bitmatch-import-c ext3.c > ext3.bmpp *) open bitmatch "ext3.bmpp" let () = let fd = Unix.openfile "/dev/sda1" in let bits = Bitmatch.bitstring_of_file_descr_max fd 4096 in bitmatch bits with | { :ext3_super_block } -> printf "free blocks = %ld\n" s_free_blocks_count | { _ } -> printf "/dev/sda1 is not an ext3 filesystem\n" Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat