in short:
BIG Endian Machine: IT Thinks The First Byte It Reads Is The Biggest.
Little Endian Machine: IT Thinks The First Byte It Reads Is The Littlest.
For example, you have the following data from the memory address 0x0000
0x0000 0x12
0x0001 0x34
0x0002 0xAb
0x0003 0xcd
If we read an address of the four byte variables 0x0000, if the character sequence is BIG-Endian, read it
The result is 0x1234ABCD; if the byte sequence Little-Endian, the read result is 0xcdAb3412.
If we write 0x1234ABCD to memory started with 0x0000, the result is
Big-endian Little-Endian
0x0000 0x12 0xcd
0x0001 0x23 0xAb
0x0002 0xAb 0x34
0x0003 0xcd 0x12
The X86 series CPUs are both literal-endian's byte sequence.
Reprinted: www.donews.net
