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[ANNOUNCE] ocaml-bitstring 1.9.6 (formerly known as ocaml-bitmatch)
- Richard Jones
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Date: | 2008-07-17 (12:41) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | [ANNOUNCE] ocaml-bitstring 1.9.6 (formerly known as ocaml-bitmatch) |
I'm please to announce version 1.9.6 of ocaml-bitstring (formerly known as ocaml-bitmatch). The home page has changed again, so please update any bookmarks or links to point to the new home page here: http://code.google.com/p/bitstring/ Version 1.9.6 features 'check()', 'bind()' and 'save_offset_to()' qualifiers which give you much greater control over the matching process. For example: bitmatch packet with | { len : 16 : check (len > 0), bind (len*8); data : len : string; crc : 32 : check (crc_ok data crc), save_offset_to (crc_offset) } -> printf "length of data (in bits) = %d\n" len; printf "offset of CRC in packet (in bits) = %d\n" crc_offset | { _ } -> printf "bad packet\n" We have also fixed some bugs, clarified the licensing everywhere (for Debian), and improved the META file. A troublesome company sent my employer a Cease and Desist notice, claiming that their trademark on the word "BitMatch" for "Computer software for comparing and analyzing computer software"[sic] covered ocaml-bitmatch. No such thing is true, but because of the time and expense of dealing with the legal process we have decided to rename ocaml-bitmatch to ocaml-bitstring for their benefit (still very time-consuming). As a result, we are gradually moving the old website, wiki etc. to the new home page above, and some internals will change (code will be backwards-compatible, but you may need to make some changes to build scripts). Thanks to Sylvain Le Gall for offering hosting. Rich.