Byte storage

Big endian

Most significant byte is assigned the least address. This is basically human readable format.
0xDEADBEEF would have

  • 0xDE at offset 0
  • 0xEF at offset 3

Little endian

Most significant byte is assigned the highest address. This is reversed and hard to read.
0xDEADBEEF would have

  • 0xDE at offset 3
  • 0xEF at offset 0