Intermediate
Computer Architecture & Organization
Q48 / 100
What is the difference between "big-endian" and "little-endian" byte ordering?
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The correct answer is A) Big-endian stores the most significant byte of a multi-byte value at the lowest memory address; little-endian stores the least significant byte at the lowest address
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Correct Answer
Big-endian stores the most significant byte of a multi-byte value at the lowest memory address; little-endian stores the least significant byte at the lowest address
Explanation
Endianness determines the byte order of multi-byte data types in memory; this matters when data is shared between systems with different endianness, requiring byte-order conversion (e.g., network byte order is big-endian).
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