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+# Revision history for leb128-serialize
+
+## 1.0 -- 2020-04-23
+
+* First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2020 Joachim Breitner
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
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+
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diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/leb128-cereal.cabal b/leb128-cereal.cabal
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+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+name:                leb128-cereal
+version:             1.0
+synopsis:            LEB128 and SLEB128 encoding
+description:
+   This module implements encoding and decoding of 'Natural' and 'Integer'
+   values according to LEB128 and SLEB128. See
+   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128> for a specification.
+   .
+   This package uses the @cereal@ package, but also provides direct encoding and
+   decoding to 'ByteString'.
+bug-reports:         https://github.com/nomeata/haskell-leb128-cereal/issues
+license:             MIT
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Joachim Breitner
+maintainer:          mail@joachim-breitner.de
+copyright:           2020 Joachim Breitner
+category:            Codec
+build-type:          Simple
+extra-source-files:  CHANGELOG.md
+tested-with:         GHC == 8.2, GHC == 8.4, GHC == 8.6, GHC == 8.8, GHC == 8.10
+
+library
+  exposed-modules:     Data.Serialize.LEB128
+  build-depends:       base >=4.10 && <5
+  build-depends:       bytestring >= 0.10
+  build-depends:       cereal >= 0.5
+  hs-source-dirs: src
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+  ghc-options:         -Wall -Wno-name-shadowing
+
+test-suite test
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+  type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is: test.hs
+  build-depends: base >= 4 && < 5
+  build-depends: tasty >= 0.7
+  build-depends: tasty-quickcheck
+  build-depends: tasty-hunit
+  build-depends: leb128-cereal
+  build-depends: bytestring
+
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/nomeata/haskell-leb128-cereal
+
diff --git a/src/Data/Serialize/LEB128.hs b/src/Data/Serialize/LEB128.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE AllowAmbiguousTypes #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wno-dodgy-imports #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -O2 #-}
+-- {-# OPTIONS_GHC -ddump-simpl -dsuppress-unfoldings -dsuppress-idinfo -dsuppress-module-prefixes -ddump-to-file #-}
+
+-- |
+-- Module      : Data.Serialize.LEB128
+-- Description : LEB128 encoding
+-- License     : MIT
+-- Maintainer  : Joachim Breitner
+--
+-- | This module implements encoding and decoding of 'Natural' and 'Integer'
+-- values according to LEB128 and SLEB128. See
+-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEB128 for a specification.
+--
+-- The module provides conversion to and from strict bytestrings.
+--
+-- Additionally, to integrate these into your own parsers and serializers, you
+-- can use the interfaces based on 'B.Builder' as well as @cereal@'s 'G.Get'
+-- and 'P.Put' monad.
+--
+-- The decoders will fail if the input is not in canonical representation,
+-- i.e. longer than necessary.
+--
+-- This code is inspired by Andreas Klebinger's LEB128 implementation in GHC.
+module Data.Serialize.LEB128
+    (
+    -- * The class of encodable and decodable types
+      LEB128
+    , SLEB128
+    -- * Bytestring-based interface
+    , toLEB128
+    , fromLEB128
+    , toSLEB128
+    , fromSLEB128
+    -- * Builder interface
+    , buildLEB128
+    , buildSLEB128
+    -- * Cereal interface
+    , getLEB128
+    , getSLEB128
+    , putLEB128
+    , putSLEB128
+    ) where
+
+import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BSL
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Builder as B
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Builder.Extra as B
+import qualified Data.Serialize.Get as G
+import qualified Data.Serialize.Put as P
+import Numeric.Natural
+import Control.Applicative
+import Control.Monad
+import Data.Bits
+import Data.Word
+import Data.Int
+import Data.Maybe
+import Data.Monoid ((<>))
+import Prelude hiding ((<>))
+
+-- | Unsigned number types can be LEB128-encoded
+class (Bits a, Num a, Integral a) => LEB128 a where
+instance LEB128 Natural
+instance LEB128 Word
+instance LEB128 Word8
+instance LEB128 Word16
+instance LEB128 Word32
+instance LEB128 Word64
+
+-- | Signed number types can be SLEB128-encoded
+class (Bits a, Num a, Integral a) => SLEB128 a
+instance SLEB128 Integer
+instance SLEB128 Int
+instance SLEB128 Int8
+instance SLEB128 Int16
+instance SLEB128 Int32
+instance SLEB128 Int64
+
+-- | LEB128-encodes a natural number to a strict bytestring
+toLEB128 :: LEB128 a => a -> BS.ByteString
+toLEB128 = BSL.toStrict . B.toLazyByteStringWith (B.safeStrategy 32 32) BSL.empty . buildLEB128
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Natural -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Word -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Word8 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Word16 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Word32 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toLEB128 :: Word64 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+
+-- | SLEB128-encodes an integer to a strict bytestring
+toSLEB128 :: SLEB128 a => a -> BS.ByteString
+toSLEB128 = BSL.toStrict . B.toLazyByteStringWith (B.safeStrategy 32 32) BSL.empty . buildSLEB128
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Integer -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Int -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Int8 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Int16 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Int32 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE toSLEB128 :: Int64 -> BS.ByteString #-}
+
+-- | LEB128-encodes a natural number via a builder
+buildLEB128 :: LEB128 a => a -> B.Builder
+buildLEB128 = go
+  where
+    go i
+      | i <= 127
+      = B.word8 (fromIntegral i :: Word8)
+      | otherwise =
+        -- bit 7 (8th bit) indicates more to come.
+        B.word8 (setBit (fromIntegral i) 7) <> go (i `unsafeShiftR` 7)
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Natural -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Word -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Word8 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Word16 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Word32 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildLEB128 :: Word64 -> B.Builder #-}
+
+-- This gets inlined for the specialied variants
+isFinite :: forall a. Bits a => Bool
+isFinite = isJust (bitSizeMaybe (undefined :: a))
+
+-- | SLEB128-encodes an integer via a builder
+buildSLEB128 :: SLEB128 a => a -> B.Builder
+buildSLEB128 = go
+  where
+    go val = do
+        let !byte = fromIntegral (clearBit val 7) :: Word8
+        let !val' = val `unsafeShiftR` 7
+        let !signBit = testBit byte 6
+        let !done =
+                -- Unsigned value, val' == 0 and and last value can
+                -- be discriminated from a negative number.
+                (val' == 0 && not signBit) ||
+                -- Signed value,
+                (val' == -1 && signBit)
+        let !byte' = if done then byte else setBit byte 7
+        B.word8 byte' <> if done then mempty else go val'
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Integer -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Int -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Int8 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Int16 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Int32 -> B.Builder #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE buildSLEB128 :: Int64 -> B.Builder #-}
+
+-- | LEB128-encodes a natural number in @cereal@'s 'P.Put' monad
+putLEB128 :: LEB128 a => P.Putter a
+putLEB128 = P.putBuilder . buildLEB128
+{-# INLINE putLEB128 #-}
+
+-- | SLEB128-encodes an integer in @cereal@'s 'P.Put' monad
+putSLEB128 :: SLEB128 a => P.Putter a
+putSLEB128 = P.putBuilder . buildSLEB128
+{-# INLINE putSLEB128 #-}
+
+-- | LEB128-decodes a natural number from a strict bytestring
+fromLEB128 :: LEB128 a => BS.ByteString -> Either String a
+fromLEB128 = runComplete getLEB128
+{-# INLINE fromLEB128 #-}
+
+-- | SLEB128-decodes an integer from a strict bytestring
+fromSLEB128 :: SLEB128 a => BS.ByteString -> Either String a
+fromSLEB128 = runComplete getSLEB128
+{-# INLINE fromSLEB128 #-}
+
+runComplete :: G.Get a -> BS.ByteString -> Either String a
+runComplete p bs = do
+    (x,r) <- G.runGetState p bs 0
+    unless (BS.null r) $ Left "extra bytes in input"
+    return x
+
+-- | LEB128-decodes a natural number via @cereal@
+getLEB128 :: forall a. LEB128 a => G.Get a
+getLEB128 = G.label "LEB128" $ go 0 0
+  where
+    go :: Int -> a -> G.Get a
+    go !shift !w = do
+      byte <- G.getWord8 <|> fail "short encoding"
+      let !byteVal = fromIntegral (clearBit byte 7)
+      when (isFinite @a) $
+        unless (byteVal `unsafeShiftL` shift `unsafeShiftR` shift == byteVal) $
+          fail "overflow"
+      let !val = w .|. (byteVal `unsafeShiftL` shift)
+      let !shift' = shift+7
+      if hasMore byte
+        then go shift' val
+        else do
+          when (byte == 0x00 && shift > 0)
+            $ fail "overlong encoding"
+          return $! val
+
+    hasMore b = testBit b 7
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Natural #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Word #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Word8 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Word16 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Word32 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getLEB128 :: G.Get Word64 #-}
+
+-- | SLEB128-decodes an integer via @cereal@
+getSLEB128 :: forall a. SLEB128 a => G.Get a
+getSLEB128 = G.label "SLEB128" $ go 0 0 0
+  where
+    go :: Word8 -> Int -> a -> G.Get a
+    go !prev !shift !w = do
+        byte <- G.getWord8 <|> fail "short encoding"
+        let !byteVal = fromIntegral (clearBit byte 7)
+        when (isFinite @a) $
+          unless ((byteVal `unsafeShiftL` shift `unsafeShiftR` shift) .&. 0x7f == byteVal) $
+            fail "overflow"
+        let !val = w .|. (byteVal `unsafeShiftL` shift)
+        let !shift' = shift+7
+        if hasMore byte
+            then go byte shift' val
+            else if signed byte
+              then do
+                when (byte == 0x7f && signed prev && shift > 0)
+                  $ fail "overlong encoding"
+                return $! val - bit shift'
+              else do
+                when (byte == 0x00 && not (signed prev) && shift > 0)
+                  $ fail "overlong encoding"
+                return $! val
+
+    hasMore b = testBit b 7
+    signed b = testBit b 6
+
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Integer #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Int #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Int8 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Int16 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Int32 #-}
+{-# SPECIALIZE getSLEB128 :: G.Get Int64 #-}
diff --git a/test.hs b/test.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE AllowAmbiguousTypes #-}
+import qualified Data.ByteString as B
+import Test.Tasty
+import Test.Tasty.HUnit
+import Test.Tasty.QuickCheck
+import Numeric.Natural
+import Data.Word
+import Data.Int
+import Data.Bits
+import Data.List
+import Data.Typeable
+
+import Data.Serialize.LEB128
+
+newtype LargeInteger = LargeInteger Integer
+    deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Num, Bits, Real, Enum, Integral, SLEB128)
+newtype LargeNatural = LargeNatural Natural
+    deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Num, Bits, Real, Enum, Integral, LEB128)
+
+instance Arbitrary LargeNatural where
+    arbitrary = LargeNatural . fromWords <$> arbitrary
+      where
+        fromWords :: [Word8] -> Natural
+        fromWords = foldl' go 0
+        go :: Natural -> Word8 -> Natural
+        go acc w = (acc `shiftL` 8) + fromIntegral w
+
+instance Arbitrary LargeInteger where
+    arbitrary = do
+       sign <- arbitrary
+       LargeNatural n <- arbitrary
+       return $ LargeInteger $ (if sign then negate else id) $ fromIntegral n
+
+-- Only change the default (slight hack)
+-- Needed to find corner cases involving non-short encodings
+moreTests (QuickCheckTests 100) = QuickCheckTests 100000
+moreTests (QuickCheckTests n) = QuickCheckTests n
+
+leb128Tests :: forall a. (Typeable a, Arbitrary a, Show a, LEB128 a) => TestTree
+leb128Tests = testGroup (show (typeRep (Proxy @a)))
+  [ testCase "empty input" $
+    fromLEB128 @a B.empty @=? Left "Failed reading: short encoding\nFrom:\tLEB128\n\n"
+  , testProperty "roundtrip" $
+    \i -> Right i === fromLEB128 (toLEB128 @a i)
+  , testProperty "unique rep" $
+    \(B.pack -> bs) -> case fromLEB128 @a bs of
+      Left _ -> property ()
+      Right i -> bs === toLEB128 i
+  ]
+
+sleb128Tests :: forall a. (Typeable a, Arbitrary a, Show a, SLEB128 a) => TestTree
+sleb128Tests = testGroup (show (typeRep (Proxy @a)))
+  [ testCase "empty input" $
+    fromSLEB128 @a B.empty @=? Left "Failed reading: short encoding\nFrom:\tSLEB128\n\n"
+  , testProperty "roundtrip" $
+    \i -> Right i === fromSLEB128 (toSLEB128 @a i)
+  , testProperty "unique rep" $
+    \(B.pack -> bs) -> case fromSLEB128 @a bs of
+      Left _ -> property ()
+      Right i -> bs === toSLEB128 i
+  ]
+
+main = defaultMain $ adjustOption moreTests $
+  testGroup "tests"
+  [ leb128Tests @LargeNatural
+  , leb128Tests @Word
+  , leb128Tests @Word8
+  , leb128Tests @Word16
+  , leb128Tests @Word32
+  , leb128Tests @Word64
+  , sleb128Tests @LargeInteger
+  , sleb128Tests @Int
+  , sleb128Tests @Int8
+  , sleb128Tests @Int16
+  , sleb128Tests @Int32
+  , sleb128Tests @Int64
+  ]
