![]() ![]() ![]() Bi-endianness is a feature supported by numerous computer architectures that feature switchable endianness in data fetches and stores or for instruction fetches. A big-endian system stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address and the least significant byte at the largest.Ī little-endian system, in contrast, stores the least-significant byte at the smallest address. Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian ( BE) or little-endian ( LE). In computing, endianness is the order or sequence of bytes of a word of digital data in computer memory. The adjective endian comes from the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift where characters known as Lilliputians are divided into those breaking the shell of a boiled egg from the big end ( Big-Endians) or from the little end ( Little-Endians)
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