[Gambas-user] Endianness issue with Streams ?

[Laurent Carlier]

Le mercredi 7 février 2024, 14:06:28 UTC+1 Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 07/02/2024 à 13:59, Laurent Carlier a écrit :
> > While reading data from a file using Read function and changing endianness
> > i found a somehow strange behavior.
> > 
> > ----8<-----
> > 
> >    Dim $iValue As Integer
> >    Dim oFitFile As File
> >    
> >    oFitFile = Open "toto" For Read
> >    $iValue = Read #oFitFile As Short
> >    Print Hex$($iValue), $iValue
> > 
> > ---->8-----
> > 
> > Setting ByteOrder as Little endian gives:
> > 5E9     1513
> > Setting ByteOrder as Big endian gives:
> > FFFFFFFFFFFFE905        -5883
> > 
> > 
> > So is it expected or is it a bug ?
> 
> What's strange?

Ok, so it's the expected behavior :) Thanks. I thought hex representation 
should be truncated to 4 digits automatically as it's a short value (2 bytes).

Thanks for the clarification.

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