Hi, BitConverter uses the same byte order as the machine (that is stored in BitConverter.IsLittleEndian as well).
As far as I know only BinaryReader and BinaryWriter are little-endian. If you need a specific byte order you have to use shift operators. For an example and for more details please have a look at the source code of our BitConverter, BinaryReader and BinaryWriter classes. Your GetBytesLittleEndian seems to be little-endian. But I think using shift operations is easier: byte[] bytearray = new byte [4]; bytearray [0] = (byte) number; bytearray [1] = (byte) (number >> 8); bytearray [2] = (byte) (number >> 16); bytearray [3] = (byte) (number >> 24); Kornél ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavel Bansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "winforms" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Endians Thanks for your fast reply Kornel. I'am interested especialy in BitConverter.GetBytes() I wrote me following little function which should return always little-endian array. Is this right or BitConverter always return little-endian array? byte[] GetBytesLittleEndian(int number) { byte[] bytearray = BitConverter.GetBytes(number); if ( ! BitConverter.IsLittleEndian ) Array.Reverse(bytearray); return(bytearray); } have a nice day Pavel Kornél Pál wrote: > Hi, > > Have a look at this message and the messages referred to in it: > http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-December/016352.html > > Kornél > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pavel Bansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "winforms" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:48 PM > Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Endians > > > Hi all, > > I have a little question (maybe a bit off-topic). Does MS.NET and Mono > use the same endians on every machines? I mean when I write integer into > binary file, will be the byte order same on all architectures - or the > framework respects endians for current architecture? > > Thanx a lot > > Pavel > -- __________________________________________________________ Pavel Bánský levap at bansky.net I write code... __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
