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What determines endianness?

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Mar 15, 20267324 views
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I was wondering if endianness only depends on CPU? Does it depends on other hardware, such as memory, secondary storage device? Does it depends on OS? Why in Wikipedia, does it seem to be true?

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CPU controls the endianness. A few CPUs can switch between big-endian and little-endian. x86/amd64 architectures don't possess this feature. Endianness is an implicit thing with load and store instructions on the CPU. Data that will not fit in one b…

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