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endianness

The order in which a multi-byte value's bytes are stored in memory.

Endianness is the byte order of a multi-byte value in memory; little-endian stores the least significant byte at the lowest address, big-endian the most significant.

Examples

  • The 4-byte value 0x12345678 is stored as 78 56 34 12 on a little-endian machine and as 12 34 56 78 on a big-endian one.

See also

little-endian big-endian
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