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Does AutoIt care about endianness?


j0kky
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Hi,

writing some code I noticed AutoIt processes binary values as Little Endian by default , it is good because my PC has an Intel processor.

But what about Big Endian processors? Does compiled executable change its behavior relying on where it is executed?

I can explain my question in other words:

$t = Binary(0x0001)
ConsoleWrite("Binary: " & $t & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Int: " & Int($t) & @CRLF)

0x0001 is saved in memory to 0x0100 (followed by other not significant 0s) because I have a little endian processor.

Int($t) reads the binary value and processes it as little endian printing the correct value of 1 (0x0001).

Does Int($t) always produce 1 or if I compile this script in my machine, and then I try to run it on a Big Endian one, do it prints 256 (0x0100)?

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Which platform do you know being big-endian and running AutoIt?

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So your real-world problem is?

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This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.
Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe here
RegExp tutorial: enough to get started
PCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta.

SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.
SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.
An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.
SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)
A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!
SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt)

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For me, real-world problems don't really regard Autoit.

It's a little hobby and I wrote each script/UDF for the community, I'm here just to speak about programming theory.

BTW the doubt started working with Network and Host Byte Order, I asked In the topic for endianness because I didn't know big Endian is so rare.

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