endian-nessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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endianness (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

Further reading

• endianness on Wikipedia.