Kbase P55662: What is the endianess ?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/21/2003 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What is the endianess ?
GOAL:
What machines have the same endianess ?
FIX:
Endianess is the way the multiple byte integers are stored in memory either by MSB (most significant byte) or LSB (least significant byte), those systems storing by MSB are called Big Endian those storing by LSB are called Little Endian.
This term is used in general to describe when binary files are portable between platforms, those platforms with the same endianess may use binary data transparently.
Samples of Big Endian machines are :
HPUX
AIX
Solaris Sparc
IRIX
Samples of Little Endian Machines are :
DGUX
WinNT
Win2000
WinXP
Linux x86
VMS
Solaris x86