Top "Endianness" questions

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

Oracle RMAN big-endian to little-endian

I have an Oracle RMAN backup that was created on a Solaris SPARC box and is therefore in big-endian format. …

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How to read integers from a file that are 24bit and little endian using Python?

Is there an easy way to read these integers in? I'd prefer a built in method, but I assume it …

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Converting 8 bytes of little-endian binary into a double precision float

I have a binary file that I read byte by byte. I come across a section that is 8 bytes long, …

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When does Endianness become a factor?

Endianness from what I understand, is when the bytes that compose a multibyte word differ in their order, at least …

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Is there a way to do a C++ style compile-time assertion to determine machine's endianness?

I have some low level serialization code that is templated, and I need to know the system's endianness at compiletime …

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Converting Int32 to 24-bit signed integer

I have a need to convert an Int32 value to a 3-byte (24-bit) integer. Endianness remains the same (little), but …

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Efficient way to read big endian data in C#

I use the following code to read BigEndian information using BinaryReader but I'm not sure if it is the efficient …

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Reverse byte order of EAX register

Example: 0xAABBCCDD will turn into 0xDDCCBBAA My program crashes, due to Access Violation exception right in the first XOR operation. …

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What's the difference between a PCAP file with a magic number of "0x4d3cb2a1" and "0xd4c3b2a1"?

I've got two PCAP files, A and B. A has a 'magic number' in the header of d4 c3 b2 …

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JavaScript Endian Encoding?

A response on SO got me thinking, does JavaScript guarantee a certain endian encoding across OSs and browsers? Or put …

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