Just wondering if someone could explain why the two following lines of code return "different" results? What causes the reversed values? Is this something to do with endianness?
int.MaxValue.ToString("X") //Result: 7FFFFFFF
BitConverter.ToString(BitConverter.GetBytes(int.MaxValue)) //Result: FF-FF-FF-7F
int.MaxValue.ToString("X")
outputs 7FFFFFFF
, that is, the number 2147483647
as a whole.
On the other hand, BitConverter.GetBytes
returns an array of bytes representing 2147483647
in memory. On your machine, this number is stored in little-endian (highest byte last). And BitConverter.ToString
operates separately on each byte, therefore not reordering output to give the same as above, thus preserving the memory order.
However the two values are the same : 7F-FF-FF-FF
for int.MaxValue
, in big-endian, and FF-FF-FF-7F
for BitConverter
, in little-endian. Same number.
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