Endian order and binary files in C++


In the binary file and data management, endianness is the sequence of bytes of a digital data inside the computer memory.

In computer memory there are two type of endian order,

Big-endian system stores the most significant byte of the data.

Small-endian systems store the least significant byte of the data.

Updated on: 22-Jan-2021

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