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| ||big endian / little endian ||||<(>"Little Endian" means that the low-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the high-order byte at the highest address. (The little end comes first.) For example, a 4 byte LongInt Byte3 Byte2 Byte1 Byte0 will be arranged in memory as follows: Base Address+0 Byte0 Base Address+1 Byte1 Base Address+2 Byte2 Base Address+3 Byte3 Intel processors (those used in PC's) use "Little Endian" byte order. "Big Endian" means that the high-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the low-order byte at the highest address. (The big end comes first.) Our LongInt, would then be stored as: Base Address+0 Byte3 Base Address+1 Byte2 Base Address+2 Byte1 Base Address+3 Byte0 Motorola processors (those used in Mac's) use "Big Endian" byte order. || |
||big endian / little endian ||||<(>[http://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html endian-ness || |
