Is Unix big endian or little endian?
Is Unix big endian or little endian? These colloquial terms are used to describe byte ordering for IBM mainframes (big endian) and for Intel-based platforms (little endian). The following platforms are considered little endian: VAX/VMS, AXP/VMS, Digital UNIX, Intel ABI, OS/2, and Windows. How do you change endian? To do this, we shift the rightmost […]