Byte Order

Definitions

1. The order in which the bytes of a multi-byte value are stored or transmitted, commonly described as big-endian or little-endian. Byte order matters whenever binary formats, protocols, or cross-platform data exchange involve numbers wider than a single byte.

   In plain English: The order in which a system stores the bytes of a multi-byte number.

   Example: "The bug only appeared on ARM because the file reader assumed the wrong byte order when decoding 32-bit integer lengths."

Related Terms

• Protocol Buffers
• Avro
• MessagePack
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