When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.
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Endianness
Synonyms for "endianness" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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7 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 位元組順序 /位元组顺序 noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
- 字節序 /字节序 noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
- 字節順序 /字节顺序 noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
Czech
1 entries- endianita noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
Finnish
1 entries- tavujärjestys noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
Polish
1 entries- kolejność bajtów noun (the property of being either big-endian or little-endian)
Sample sentences
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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.
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Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.
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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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