Difference between revisions of "Endian"

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The endianess defines the way data is stored in physical memmory.

There are two standars:

Both are well-widely used and common.

Little endian requires the bytes with the numbers with lower weight to be placed first in memory.

Big endian requires the bytes with the numbers with higher weight to be placed first in memory.