Endianness

Quick meaning: Endianness is a noun meaning (computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

Meaning

(computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

Example Sentences

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.

When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.

The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

Word Forms

• endiannesses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsignedness, endogeneity, indentedness, signedness, endocentricity, indexability.

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