Hello! I think you are a bit confused about endians and buffer representation in console. When you type `myBuff` it prints bytes in the same order as they'll be sent on network or written to file.
i.e. `<Buffer 36 02 00 00>` means that `buf[0] === 0x36` and `buf[1] === 0x02`, which is exactly how Little Endian should be represented. The big endian representation of your number will be 00000236 which means that `buf[2] === 0x02` and `buf[3] === 0x36`. Cheers, Fedor. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:30 PM, jduncanator <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but I think there is an issue with the way Buffer's > endianness works (or at least the "description" the methods have). > > Lets say I create a new buffer: > > var myBuff = new Buffer(4); > > And now I wish to write an integer to my buffer in little-endian which has > the least significant byte first: > > myBuff.writeUInt32LE(566, 0); > > Now then, one would expect that this method just wrote the integer '566' to > my buffer in little-endian, but something odd goes on: > >> myBuff > <Buffer 36 02 00 00> > > Hang on, thats not little-endian, thats big-endian. If I were to send this > over the network now, and the other end expects the buffer to contain a > integer in little-endian, they would be rudely interrupted with a big-endian > integer. You can even demonstrate this by entering that hex into the > interpreter: > >> 0x36020000 > 906100736 > > Am I confusing what the BE and LE mean in the `write` functions or is > something weird going on? > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
