COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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Question
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the less significant bytes (the rightmost bytes) of the word
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the more significant bytes (the leftmost bytes) of the word
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Big Endian Byte Order: The most significant byte (the “big end") of the data is placed at the byte with the lowest address. The rest of the data is placed in order in the next three bytes in memory.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Little-Endian storage order, the “little", least significant, byte 0x11 is stored “first", at the lowest memory location 101. The 0x11 displays to the left of the other bytes, which follow in ascending left-to-right memory address order: 102, 103, 104.
Detailed explanation-3: -Big-endian is an order in which the “big end” (most significant value in the sequence) is stored first, at the lowest storage address. Little-endian is an order in which the “little end” (least significant value in the sequence) is stored first.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Little-endian ordering, the most significant byte (MSB) is placed last and the least significant byte (LSB) is placed first. This is the opposite of Big-endian ordering (significant byte first, least significant byte last).