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little-endian

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Definitions of little-endian word

  • noun Technical meaning of little-endian (data, architecture)   A computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored "little-end-first"). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian. The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte. Compare big-endian, middle-endian. See NUXI problem. 1
  • adjective little-endian (computing) Of a computer, storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first. 0
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