A type of byte ordering (used by IBM-compatible personal computers) in which the most significant bytes are in the higher, or rightmost, storage locations for each multi-byte value. Unlike big-endian, the number of byes in each value determines the exact ordering of the bytes. For example, the four characters "UNIX" are stored as "NUXI" on a little-endian computer.

See endian(ness)

A data format in which multibyte values are stored with the least significant values lowest in memory. This is the format used on standard Intel (x86-based) PCs and Digital workstations, for example.

The least significant byte in a word comes first; opposite of big-endian where the most significant byte comes first.

A binary data format is which the least significant byte or bit comes first. See also big-endian.

A method of storing or transmitting data where the most significant bit or byte is presented last. (The name is an allusion to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," which contained characters so named because they believed that boiled eggs should be eaten from the "little end" first.) See big-endian.

A format for storage or transmission of binary data in which the least significant byte (bit) comes first. See also: big-endian. [Source: RFC1208

The hardware design in which the least significant bits of a multi-byte integer are stored in the byte with the lowest address. Little-endian order is the normal order in Intel processors, and optional in MIPS processors. Opposed to big-endian. (These terms are from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which the citizens of Lilliput and Blefescu are divided by the burning question of whether one's breakfast egg should be opened at the little or the big end.)

Refers to the least significant byte first order in which bytes of a multi-byte value (such as a 32-bit dword value) are stored. For example a decimal value of 457,851 is represented as 0x0006FC7B in hexidecimal and would be stored in a file as: 0x7B, 0xFC, 0x06, 0x00. Intel processors (PC) use Little-Endian. The opposite byte ordering method is called Big-Endian.

adj. Refers to storage of a multi-byte quantity with the least-significant byte at the lowest address. See also byte order.

adj. A data representation for a multibyte value that has the least significant byte stored at the lowest memory address. Note that only the bytes are reordered, never the nibbles or bits that comprise them. Every processor stores its data in either big-endian or little-endian format. Intel's 80x86 family is little-endian. [ more] EXAMPLE: If the 32-bit value 0x44332211 is located at address 0x0004 in memory, its least significant byte, 0x11, would be found at location 0x0004. Location 0x0005 would contain the next significant byte, 0x22; location 0x0006 would contain 0x33; and location 0x0007 would contain the most significant byte, 0x44. A little-endian memory dump.

Refers to a processor memory architecture in which the byte layout is as follows: Byte N is the least significant (and, in conventional layout diagrams, the "rightmost") byte of: A word composed of bytes N and (N + 1). A doubleword composed of bytes N, (N + 1), (N + 2), and (N + 3). A K-byte memory entity composed of bytes N, (N + 1),...,(N + K – 1). The address of the preceding word, doubleword, or K-byte entity is its least significant byte, N. Intel microprocessors always support little-endian addressing. Some RISC microprocessors can be configured for either big-endian or little-endian addressing. For a little-endian configuration, the least significant bit of a 16-bit short value is the "rightmost" bit at byte N, while the most significant bit is the "leftmost" bit of byte (N + 1). See also big-endian.