Thread: Endianness - Is this correct?

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    Endianness - Is this correct?

    Hi, I was just reading some article when I stumbled across this. It's making me question my knowledge of endianness. It says:

    Code:
    For example lets say we are going to store a 2-byte number
       in memory say the value is (in hex) 0x0203
    
    
       First this is how the value is stored on a big-endian machine:
    
                        ___________
                       | 02  | 03  |
                       |_____|_____| 
            address:    0       1
    
    
       And here is the same value on a little-endian machine:
    
                       ___________
                      |03   | 02  |
                      |_____|_____|
           address:    1       0
    Is this correct? Shouldn't the latter either be:
    Code:
                      ___________
                      |03   | 02  |
                      |_____|_____|
           address:    0       1
    or
    Code:
                      ___________
                      |02   | 03  |
                      |_____|_____|
           address:    1       0

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    You're right, it's wrong. The address doesn't change, only the order of values does. Your first possibility is the right one.

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    thanks brewbuck

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