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Except for the limitations described below, you can take a backup from any big-endian server and restore it to any other big-endian server.

Little-endian means that the least significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored little-end-first).

Big-endian means that the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored big-end-first).

The byte ordering (Big-Endian or Little-Endian) for a storage access is specified by the operating system.

Note that networks usually use big-endian byte order, so an application running on System z does not need conversion here.

The first four bytes of the system default file format contain a 32-bit signed integer in little-endian format (see Encoding).

Or, how are arguments transmitted between machines with different addressing schemes, big endian vs. little endian?

If the -u option has been specified, the output will always be little-endian Unicode.

Defines the image internal characterset for JIS encoded user comments if image is in motorola byte order (big-endian).

Little-endian format: the high byte of word data is stored in high address, and the low byte of word data is stored in the lower address.

For instance, PNG documents (a competitor to TIFF) are always big endian.

If an integer is four bytes in length with a big-endian encoding, then the message uses that same representation.

However, the majority of current system implementation uses little-endian mode.

The following example illustrates the difference in byte order between big endian and little endian machines.

The IA-64 Linux kernel uses little-endian by default, but allows for the possibility of using big-endian byte order.

Intel microprocessors are little-endian.

Big-endian format: the high byte of word data stored in the lower address, while the low byte of word data is stored in high address.

Big-endian and little-endian UTF-8 are identical, because UTF-8 is defined in terms of 8-bit bytes rather than 16-bit words.

All processors of the Intel x86 family are little endian.

BinaryWriter stores this data type in little endian format.

We have bit fields in C and C that help to deal with endian issues.

But what happens if a client running on a big endian IBM PowerPC attempts to send a 32-bit integer to a little endian Intel x86?

Since SPARC is big-endian and x86 is little-endian, you need to consider endianness issues.

The example that caught us was compiling PINE on a big-endian system.

So, on a big-endian system, it thought every file was empty.

Save selected characters to file in UTF-8, UTF-16 (Big or Little Endian) or UTF-32 (Big or Little Endian) encoding.

Because x86 CPUs are little-endian, the value 0x0042 is stored in memory as 42 00.

A character constant with more than one character will be arranged with little-endian order in mind: if you code

For example, the 32-bit word 0x12345678 will be laid out on a big endian machine as follows

If we view 0x12345678 as two half words, 0x1234 and 0x5678, we would see the following in a big endian machine