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Endianness

1. Introduction

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In computing, endianness is the byte (and sometimes bit) ordering used to represent some kind of data. Typical cases are the order in which integer values are stored as bytes in computer memory (relative to a given memory addressing scheme) and the transmission order over a network or other medium. When specifically talking about bytes, endianness is also referred to simply as byte order.
[/quote] (From wikipedia)

Here is a very simple list of endianness on different platforms. For more information please read wikipedia.

Network Protocol: Big-Endian
Java Application: Big-Endian
Motorola PowerPC: Big-Endian

x86: Little-Endian
ARM: Support both Big-Endian and Little-Endian. Usually Little-Endian

2. Endianness in Wing

All binary files in wing are stored in Big-Endian format.

3. Float point endianness