Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P3: Somewhat important
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None
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6.8
Description
1) You can read in doc about qFromLittleEndian and about qFromBigEndian text like this "Reads count little-endian numbers from memory"
What means numbers? May be we should add text like "numbers means sizeof(typename T) Bytes".
2) Let's talk about qFromLittleEndian. "Reads count little-endian numbers from memory location src and stores them in the host byte order representation at dest. On CPU architectures where the host byte order is big-endian (such as PowerPC) this will swap the byte order; otherwise it will just perform a memcpy from src to dest." I have x86-64 so I have litle-endian. So I should expect "otherwise it will just perform a memcpy from src to dest"? Is it means that in my case src and dest will be the same? In fact no:
QByteArray arr= QByteArray::fromHex("AABB"); quint16 val=0xFFFF; qFromLittleEndian<quint16>(reinterpret_cast<const void*>(&arr[0]), 1, &val); qDebug().noquote().nospace() << "u16;" << QString("0x"+QString("%1").arg(val, 2, 16, QChar('0')).toUpper());
out:
u16;0xBBAA
3) What is range for qFromLittleEndian/qFromBigEndian's qsizetype count? Can I use 0? I test in my code and looks like I can use 0 (in this case qFromLittleEndian do nothing) but I am afraid of Undefined behavior...