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seinol
seinol

Reputation: 71

Difference between an 8-bit number in little-endian and an 8-bit number in big-endian

What is the difference between an 8-bit number in little-endian and an 8-bit number in big-endian on Intel 64 systems?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1777

Answers (2)

Joop Eggen
Joop Eggen

Reputation: 109557

I would like to mention that loading a single byte into a larger register, might apply the endianess to the register:

With little endianess the byte would maintain its numeric value. With big endianess in a 4 byte register it would be shifted << 24.

Though I know of no such instruction, being not familiar with intel.

Upvotes: 0

Henry
Henry

Reputation: 43738

There is no difference. A sequence of only one byte looks the same when read from left to right or right to left.

Upvotes: 5

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