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(** Low-level byte array querying and manipulation.

    Default layout for numeric operations is big-endian.
    Little-endian operations in the LE submodule. **)

include module type of Bigstring
include Compare.S with type t := t

include EndianBigstring.EndianBigstringSig
module LE : EndianBigstring.EndianBigstringSig

val make : int -> char -> t
val of_hex : Hex.t -> t
val to_hex : t -> Hex.t
val pp_hex : Format.formatter -> t -> unit

(** [cut ?copy size bytes] cut [bytes] the in a list of successive
    chunks of length [size] at most.

    If [copy] is false (default), the blocks of the list
    can be garbage-collected only when all the blocks are
    unreachable (because of the 'optimized' implementation of
    [sub] used internally. *)
val cut: ?copy:bool -> int  -> t -> t list