little-endian

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  • I was hoping to be able to read the code files into arrays, but unfortunately the Python array type only supports the native byte-order (SPARC is big-endian and I was intending to use an x86 which is little-endian). —  Planet Debian
  • CConn: Using ZRLE encoding CConn: Throughput 20001 kbit / s - changing to hextile encoding CConn: Throughput 20001 kbit / s - changing to full colour CConn: Using pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888 —  Sun Bloggers
  • The binary data ( "050000C0") for the first error was obviously the HRESULT for an access violation in little-endian format (e.g. "0xC0000005"), and the second error explained why my counters were missing - something went wrong at some point and Windows disabled the process performance counters. —  The Official Microsoft IIS Site
  • BitConverter JavaScript class supports little-endian (default), big-endian byte orders and numeric arrays. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • Replication: Row-based replication did not correctly copy TIMESTAMP values from a big-endian storage engine to a little-endian storage engine.
 

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  1. In Swift's “Gulliver's Travels,” a member of the Lilliputian party which contended that boiled eggs should be cracked at the little end: opposed to big-endian.
 

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