Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
Some computer architectures number bytes in a binary word from left to right, which is referred to as big-endian. This documentation uses big-endian bit diagrams. Other architectures number the bytes in a binary word from right to left, which is referred to as little-endian. The underlying stream format enumerations, objects, and records in RPL are stored in little-endian.
Using big-endian and little-endian methods, the number 0x12345678 would be stored as shown in the following table.
Byte order |
Byte 0 |
Byte 1 |
Byte 2 |
Byte 3 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Big-endian |
0x12 |
0x34 |
0x56 |
0x78 |
Little-endian |
0x78 |
0x56 |
0x34 |
0x12 |