[Mono-dev] Are there any endian issues with unsafe code?

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

Thanks for the test results. After the message of Brion Vibber I expected
these results but now I'm sure.

> BTW, BinaryReader/Writer is always little-endian. This is documented
> on MSDN.

They are expected to be little-endian but only BinaryReader.ReadUInt16 (no
other BinaryReader or any BinaryWriter methods) is documented to be
little-endian.:)

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Jordan" <robertj at gmx.net>
To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Are there any endian issues with unsafe code?


> Kornél Pál wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you please run the attached test case with Mono on a big-endian
>> system
>> and share the results with me to get to know the exact details of managed
>> endiannes.
>>
>
> BTW, BinaryReader/Writer is always little-endian. This is documented
> on MSDN.
>
> BinaryReader.ReadInt32: little-endian
> Bitmap.LockBits:        big-endian
> Buffer.BlockCopy:       big-endian
> LayoutKind.Explicit:    big-endian
> Marshal.Copy:           big-endian
> Marshal.WriteByte:      big-endian
> Unsafe code:            big-endian
>
> Robert
>
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