Endian Systems

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The corporate entity Endian Systems is still in the conceptual phase. Both the company and this Web site are a work in progress.. Big and Little Endian Depending upon which computer architecture you are familiar with, either Intel or Motorola, you occasionally need to consider the byte order in which multi-byte numbers are stored in memory. This is particularly important when you are writing these numbers to a file or interpreting them as say an IP address in log messages. Multi-byte numbers maybe stored in memory in one of two ways, namely "Little Endian" order (Intel Format) or "Big Endian" order (Motorola Format). "Little Endian" implies that the low-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the high-order byte at the highest address. (The Least Significant Byte is stored first.) For example, a 32 bit quantity (long int) would be stored in memory as

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