Re: [avr-chat] What's 'little endian'

[Alan Kilian]

> what's 'little endian'?

    Royce,

        Imagine you have a processor that can read and write individual
        bytes of data to memory. (For example. It happens in other
        areas also.)

        When it wants to store a 2-byte integer (for example) to 
        memory, it needs to decide which byte of the integer gets stored
        where in memory.

        It could store the most-significant byte at the lower address 
        and follow it with the least-significant byte, or it could do it
        the other way around. (Otherwise known as the correct way  ;-))

        http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/big_endian.html

                                        -Alan

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