Meaning of endianness | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.”

“The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.”

“Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.”

“An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.”

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