From: blue storm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: How to read different ints from a Bigarray?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527cf6bc0910281548s53a00ec9s99402f4249b2d411@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyxj5rkv.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> Maybe ideal would be a format string based interface that calls C with
> a format string and a record of values. Because what I really need is
> to read/write records in an architecture independend way. Something
> like
>
> type t = { x:int; y:char; z:int64 }
> let t_format = "%2u%c%8d"
>
> put_formated buf t_format t
>
> But how to get that type safe? Maybe a camlp4 module that generates
> the format string and type from a single declaration so they always
> match.
It's possibly off-topic, but you might be interested in Richard
Jones's Bitstring project [1] wich deals with similar issues quite
nicely in my opinion.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/bitstring/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 13:54 Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 14:16 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 15:00 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 15:17 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 17:57 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 18:19 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 21:05 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 21:26 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 22:48 ` blue storm [this message]
2009-10-29 9:50 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 10:34 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 12:20 ` Richard Jones
2009-10-29 17:07 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-30 20:30 ` Richard Jones
2009-11-01 15:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-01 19:57 ` Richard Jones
2009-11-02 16:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-02 16:33 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2009-11-02 20:27 ` Richard Jones
2009-11-03 13:18 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-02 20:48 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 20:40 ` Florian Weimer
2009-10-29 21:04 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-29 23:43 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-30 0:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-29 23:38 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 15:37 ` [Caml-list] " Olivier Andrieu
2009-10-28 16:05 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 15:43 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-28 16:06 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-28 18:09 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-28 17:09 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-10-28 19:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 17:05 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 18:42 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2009-10-29 19:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 18:48 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-10-29 23:25 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-03 17:16 Charles Forsyth
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