endian
Speech parts
1. endian - Adjective
2. endian - Verb
Meaning
endian (not comparable)
(computing) Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian). [from 1980]
endian-neutral code
to end
to finish, complete
to abolish, destroy
to come to an end, cease; to die
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A DCX file consists of a header introducing a set of following PCX files. citation PCX file format PCX files were designed for use on IBM-compatible PCs and always use little endian byte ordering.
An interesting side effect of this implementation is that a program can store a 64-bit value (the longest operand format) to memory while in one endian mode, switch modes, and read back the same 64-bit value without seeing a change of byte order.
It would also imply the file's "endianness" as those units employed little endian (V64) and big endian (Z64) byte alignment.
As the structures have been designed with unaligned members, this "both endian" encoding does however not help implementors as the data structures need to be read byte-wise to convert them to properly aligned data.
MIPSel refers to a MIPS architecture using a little endian byte order.
Newer files have a header that consists of six unsigned 32-bit words, an optional information chunk and then the data (in big endian format).