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Well I got confused too. I'm java developer (bsc. in CS) but I'm getting quite stuck on this one.
Manual GC isn't exactly my cup of tea 
Well, I want to retrieve some EXIF information from the file, and when not swapping the bytes (hey, I do NOT write the array to disk) I get the same ouput as when using od (UNIX tool for displaying files).
So I thought, I had a byte-order related problem.
od output:
0000000 d8ff e1ff 8711 7845 6669 0000 4949 002a<br />
When running my own app, I found a ff first, then the d8, an ff, the e1, the 11, the 87. etc...
That's my reason to swap these bytes.
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Hi,
A typical JPEG hex dump starts like this:
000000 FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46 49 46 00 01 02 01 00 87
000010 00 87 00 00 FF ED 08 9E 50 68 6F 74 6F 73 68 6F
i.e. the very first byte is FF.
If you interpret that as a number of 16-bit words (as your od command seems to do)
then you would get D8FF E0FF etc. but that does not mean this is how you should look at it.
In fact JPEG coding is byte oriented, each FF XX pair of bytes marks the start of something
and may be preceeded by an arbitrary number of FF bytes.
I suggest you:
- start by reading the JPEG standard, you can find it on the web;
- look at JPEG files with an unbiased tool, one that shows bytes, not larger integers.
BTW: if you read a JPEG file with Image.FromFile() the Image class will offer access
to a lot of metadata as well (e.g. GetPropertyItem() method)
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thanks for the info.
nut the image class is .net based, and I don't want just plain C++ without ms specific stuff.
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It's your binary viewer utility that's swapping the bytes.
If you go through and swap bytes, you won't have a JPEG anymore.
If you want to see the actual bytes in order, change your byte viewer loop to
for(int i=0;i<100;i++)<br />
{ <br />
cout << hex << (int)(unsigned char)memblock[i] << endl;<br />
}
And for your non-GC related issue - you don't want to use your array after you delete it
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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okay that's strange.
thanks you for the help, I really appreciated it 
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it works fine now
thanks a lot!
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I'm sorry, but I still think they're swapped.
My reason for this is the fact that I'm looking up 0x9003, which is a tag in a JPEG file indicating the date of the picture.
When using 'od', I see this:
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$ od -x file.jpg | grep 9003<br />
0000520 0004 0000 3230 3030 9003 0002 0014 0000<br />
This is the only occurence of '9003' in a file which does contain the information (so this must be the instance I'm looking for).
But, when running my program, and printing some lines, I get this output:
<br />
4<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
30<br />
32<br />
30<br />
30<br />
3<br />
90<br />
2<br />
0<br />
14<br />
0<br />
This is produced by the loop you've proposed. When comparing both outputs, I see this one has the bytes swapped when compared to od and (!) the exif standard. So I guess, od isn't wrong. Or am I indeed wrong?
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I think we're confusing two different issues here...
First, your "od" is lumping 2 byte pairs and is assuming little-endian
byte order so, as you can see from the sample listings you've posted,
each pair of bytes appears swapped in the od-generated listing.
Second, you have to parse your file properly, depending on the byte order.
exif has some kind of tag to indicate whether multi-byte integers are stored
in "motorola" or "intel" order. This doesn't mean you can just go through the
entire file and swap every pair of bytes. This means when you encounter
multibyte-integer data in the file, you may need to swap bytes to work with
the data on your platform.
You need to parse the file bytes following its type and format. I don't have the jpeg/jfif
format memorized but it's well documented all over the internet
Again, the only swapping going on here is by your "od" utility. In your code you simply
have the bytes in the same order they occur in the file.
Mark
*edit* LOL I really meant "sample", not "ample"....ample sounded snotty LMAO
Last modified: 17mins after originally posted --
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okay that sounds possible.
But when having a look at http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html
I can see the tags about the creation date are 0x9003 and 0x9004 (still have to decide which one to take).
when a having a look at the jpg itself (which has a date and time of 01-01-1998) i see the strings about the date in a proper sequence.... but there's no 9003. Just a 0390 before it.
I've looked it up in the exif documentation, and I haven't found anything about inverting the bytes on such markers. What am I missing?
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GentooGuy wrote: but there's no 9003. Just a 0390 before it.
Where are you seeing that? In your od results? If so, then that IS 9003
because od is swapping avery pair of bytes.
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Nop, in the VS binary editor
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I don't know what to tell you....
There's only three possibilities here:
1) The file was written incorrectly (not following specs)
2) There's a tag somewhere that indicates the byte order and you need to use it
3) You're interpreting the binary bytes incorrectly.
Which is it?
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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option 2.
I've read something about it yesterday, currently trying to find the document which described it.
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JPEG is big-endian.
EXIF follows TIFF specs which can be big or little endian.
This is usually determined by the first two bytes of the file:
"II" (0x49 0x49) for little endian, "MM" (0x4D 0x4D) for big endian.
For a file with "MM" byte order, tags (and all other multi-byte fields
of tags) will need to be swapped on Intel machines.
For the tag 0x9003, I would expect the following storage in the file:
Big endian: 0x90 0x03
Little endian: 0x03 0x90
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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thanks, I've got it working
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BTW are you using Visual Studio? If so, open the jpeg file in the binary editor window.
It won't swap any bytes in the display.
File menu -> Open/File...
Select the file
Click the little drop arrow on the "Open" button and choose "Open with..."
Choose binary editor
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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I looked up od
You should be using something like "-t x1" (or is it "-t xC") instead of "-x" on your command line since
you want single-byte hex integers, not double-byte integers.
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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right! forget od in 16-bit mode.
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FYI:
I checked some JPEG documents and can confirm JPEG is "big-endian" which means multi-byte
quantities need their byte order reversed on a "little-endian" machine such as Intel's x86.
From the doc: "For parameters which are 2 bytes (16 bits) in length, the most significant
byte shall come first in the compressed data’s ordered sequence of bytes."
As already stated by Mark, this does NOT mean you should swap every pair of bytes; it does
mean if two bytes are to represent a 16-bit integer, then you should swap both bytes; if 4 bytes
represent a 32-bit integer, then you should swap all four bytes.
Since 2B and 4B integers will not always be properly aligned in memory, you will need
a method that interprets 2 bytes in the right order, whereever they are, as in the following
C# code snippet:
private byte getByte() {
return bytes[p++];
}
private ushort getShort() {
ushort bHi=getByte();
ushort bLo=getByte();
return (ushort)((bHi<<8)+bLo);
}
where bytes[] holds the entire file content, and p is the "current position".
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Hi,
What is "Byte Level Code" in C++?? When and How we are using?? Any tutorial regarding this topic...Thanks
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spalanivel wrote: What is "Byte Level Code" in C++??
Byte level code is a term mostly associated with Java. Java compilers do not produce "machine code", they produce a machine independent code that was often called "byte code". To execute the byte code you need an interpreter specific to the machine (processor / architecture) because the processor can only execute machine code.
The original intent of C/C++ is to produce machine code. If there are non machine code C++ compilers then they would produce something that might be called byte level code meaning that it needs an interpreter because the processor can't execute it.
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Hey everyone,
I've got a C++ console application and it goes into a loop while that never ends except when the user presses the ESC key! Right now my loop is coded like this:
while (!kbhit())
{ code }
I have to change the kbhit bit to make it so it only ends the loop when I press the ESC key!
Thanks for your help in advance, I appreciate it!
Michael 
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This seems to be unmanaged C++, if so you posted in the wrong forum.
Maybe this will do it: while(!kbhit()||getch()!=27) {...}
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Damn it. I just discussed this last week and I can't find the answer in my notes. I want to set the current cell. The documentation has an example in C# is...
myDataGridView->CurrentCell = myDataGridView(1, 1);
I can't do this in C++/CLI. What is the correct syntax to set the current cell?
Buck
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