little-endian

Storing the lowest byte of a value first, at the lowest address; how x86-64, ARM64 and RISC-V machines store numbers.

Little-endian byte order places byte 0 (bits 0-7) of a value at its address and higher-order bytes at increasing addresses.

Examples

Storing 0x12345678 at address 0x1000 little-endian puts 78 at 0x1000, then 56, 34, and 12 at 0x1003.