Top "Endianness" questions

Endianness refers to how multi-byte values are stored in memory, sent between devices or stored on disk.

ntohl() vs htonl() in Little Endian

Kindly clarify my doubt as i got so confused with the below stuff and i couldnt get a clean anwser …

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Can endianness refer to bits order in a byte?

I'm reading "Learning Core Audio: A Hands-On Guide to Audio Programming for Mac and iOS" by Chris Adamson and at …

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What makes a system little-endian or big-endian?

I'm confused with the byte order of a system/cpu/program. So I must ask some questions to make my …

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find endianness of system in java

I found out that algorithm (int C) for checkink if machine is bigindian or littleindian is int is_big_endian(…

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How to make GCC generate bswap instruction for big endian store without builtins?

I'm working on a function that stores a 64-bit value into memory in big endian format. I was hoping that …

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How to distinguish between mips cpu types on linux when dpkg-architecture is absent?

Short question: how can I reliably distinguish between mips, mipsel, mips64 and mips64el on any linux distribution? Longer explanation: …

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Large flags enumerations in C#

Hey everyone, got a quick question that I can't seem to find anything about... I'm working on a project that …

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Function convert Hex String to BitArray C#

I created the following function which will do as requested (convert HEX string to BitArray). I am not sure about …

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The reason behind endianness?

So, I was wondering, why some architectures use little-endian and others big-endian. I remember I read somewhere that it has …

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Endianness inside CPU registers

I need help understanding endianness inside CPU registers of x86 processors. I wrote this small assembly program: section .data section .…

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