On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:50:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> but no
> 
> let unparse_foo (x, y) =
>   bitmake { x : 16 : littleendian; y : 16 : littleendian } x y

See:

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/bitstring/html/Bitstring.html#2_Constructingbitstrings

I don't necessarily think bitstring is suitable here though because
you still need to read your data into a string (or fake a string on
the C heap as Olivier Andrieu mentioned).  I think in this case you'd
be better off just writing this part of the code in C.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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