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单词 endian
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Definition of endian in English:

endian

adjectiveˈɛndɪənˈendēən
usually in phrase big-endian" or "little-endianComputing
  • Denoting or relating to a system of ordering bytes in a word, or bits in a byte, in which the most significant (or least significant) item is put first.

    big-endian vs. little-endian representation of data
    a lot of communications and networking hardware is little-endian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the bigendian systems, those bytes happened to be zeros (making the system appear to work properly), while on the little-endian systems, they were nonzero, causing the string to appear to be corrupted.
    • If one number in the file is little-endian, the whole file will be little-endian.
    • Remember, on a little-endian machine, the first byte is the least significant one.
    • Out of the many advantages to this format, one is quite relevant to Linux users: it is fully binary-compatible across big-endian and little-endian computers.
    • As a student and research assistant at Columbia University's Computer Music Center, I took a first stab at a Linux port which had to use this program to unswap big-endian files.

Origin

1980s: from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which big-endians and little-endians ate boiled eggs by breaking the ‘big’ end or ‘little’ end respectively.

 
 

Definition of endian in US English:

endian

adjectiveˈendēən
Computing
  • Denoting or relating to a system of ordering data in a computer's memory whereby the most significant (big-endian) or least significant (little-endian) byte is put first.

    big-endian vs. little-endian representation of data
    a lot of communications and networking hardware is little-endian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the bigendian systems, those bytes happened to be zeros (making the system appear to work properly), while on the little-endian systems, they were nonzero, causing the string to appear to be corrupted.
    • As a student and research assistant at Columbia University's Computer Music Center, I took a first stab at a Linux port which had to use this program to unswap big-endian files.
    • If one number in the file is little-endian, the whole file will be little-endian.
    • Remember, on a little-endian machine, the first byte is the least significant one.
    • Out of the many advantages to this format, one is quite relevant to Linux users: it is fully binary-compatible across big-endian and little-endian computers.

Origin

1980s: from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which big-endians and little-endians ate boiled eggs by breaking the ‘big’ end or ‘little’ end respectively.

 
 
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