Simon Fraser University7 年
Byte Ordering on Big Endian and Little Endian Platforms
The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and the "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...
Simon Fraser University7 年
Byte Ordering on Big Endian and Little Endian Platforms
The ordering of bytes differs between the "big endian" and "little endian" platforms. These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based ...
PC Magazine5 年
byte order
A bi-endian machine, such as ARM and PowerPC, supports both big endian and little endian words. In the following example, the decimal number 450 is shown in both byte orders in hexadecimal ...
PC Magazine5 年
bi-endian
The ability to switch between big endian and little endian ordering. For example, the PowerPC is a bi-endian CPU. See byte order. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...