endianness

English

Etymology

endian +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

endianness (countable and uncountable, plural endiannesses)

1. (computing) The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.

   When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.

   • 1999, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java Input/Output:

     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.

   • 2006, Michael Barr, Anthony Massa, Programming Embedded Systems, page 99:

     Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.

   • 2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116:

     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.

Translations

the property of being either big-endian or little-endian

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 位元組順序／位元组顺序 (wai⁶ jyun⁴ zou² seon⁶ zeoi⁶)

  Mandarin: (chiefly mainland China) 字節序／字节序 (zìjiéxù), 字節順序／字节顺序 (zìjié shùnxù), (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau) 位元組順序／位元组顺序 (wèiyuánzǔ shùnxù)

• Czech: endianita f
• Finnish: tavujärjestys (fi)

Further reading

• endianness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia