endianness

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Etymology

endian +‎ -ness

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endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

  1. (computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
    When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.
    • 1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:
      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.
    • 2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:
      Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.
    • 2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:
      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.

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