On little endian platforms, the value 1 is stored in one byte as 01 (the same as big endian), in two bytes as 01 00, and in four bytes as 01 00 00 00. If an integer is negative, the "two's complement" ...

Most of the processor architectures which we come into contact with today are little-endian systems, meaning that they store and address bytes in a least-significant byte (LSB) order. Unlike in ...

Byte order refers to the order of digits in computer words at least 16 bits long. See word. Big endian is how we normally deal with numbers: the most significant byte or digits are placed leftmost ...

For example, the PowerPC is a bi-endian CPU. See byte order. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.