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big-endian

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1.(data, architecture)big-endian - A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first").

Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian.

See -endian.
2.(networking, standard)big-endian - A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. fred@doc.acme.ac.uk). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. me@uk.ac.wigan.cs) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this.

By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.


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The byte stream is described as little-endian when the low-order byte of the number is stored in memory at the lowest address, and the high-order byte at the highest address; big-endian is the reverse.
It will be a boutique or proprietary item at best, like Hewlett-Packard Co's big-endian HP-UX on IA-64, they suggest.
Sourcery G++ for ARM targets the new ARM Cortex[TM]-A9 and Cortex-R4F processors, and the Professional Edition now includes big-endian runtime libraries and VFP-optimized runtime libraries for improved performance on certain ARM processors.
 
 
 
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