The Old New Thing

August 5, 2013 - The Old New Thing

A practical reason for shutting down for the Mayan apocalyse

August 5, 2013 Aug 5, 2013 08/5/13
Raymond Chen
I dreamed that Costco announced that they were closing for the Mayan apocalypse and would reopen two weeks later. Not because they believed in it. Rather, because that was their estimate as to how long it would take people to get through their stockpiles and be ready to go shopping again. Curiously, I had this dream several weeks after the ...

Why does BitConverter.LittleEndian return false on my x86 machine?

August 5, 2013 Aug 5, 2013 08/5/13
Raymond Chen
Welcome to CLR Week 2013, returned from its two-year hiatus. A customer reported that when they checked with the debugger, reported even though they were running on an x86 machine, which is a little-endian architecture. The bytes are extracted in little-endian order, despite the claim that the machine is big-endian. "I don't get it...