> I wonder if there is a way to read or convert little endian numbers
> in ocaml. I am trying to write an interface to WAV audio files, and their
> headers contain little endian as well as some
> big endian words...

Your best bet is to read byte per byte and reassemble words yourself:

let input_int2_le ic =
  let b1 = input_byte ic in
  let b2 = input_byte ic in
  b1 lor (b2 lsl 8)

let input_int2_be ic =
  let b1 = input_byte ic in
  let b2 = input_byte ic in
  (b1 lsl 8) lor b2

and similarly for 4-byte integers.

- Xavier Leroy
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