Most of the processor architectures which we come into contact with today are little-endian systems, meaning that they store and address bytes in a least-significant byte (LSB) order. Unlike in the ...

Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little. A big endian representation has a multibyte integer written with its most significant byte on the left; a number represented thus is easily read by ...

When is an int not an int? Network, on-disk, and USB data might be in a different byte order from your system’s native one. The “sparse” code checking tool lets you label and check that you’re ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Software and hardware engineers who have to deal with byte and bit order issues know the process is like walking a maze. Though ...

Embedded software programmers are familiar with the endianness characteristic of a computing processor, insofar as it refers to how bytes of a data word are ordered within memory. Taking their name ...

How data representation is impacted by hardware updates. How to use Ada representation clauses to create portable specifications for data representation. How to use GNAT’s Scalar_Storage_Order feature ...

Embedded software programmers are familiar with the endianness characteristic of a computing processor. They are generally aware how, depending on endianness, different data types are stored in memory ...