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what is these two terms all about???? can someone give a detailed view....
 

I knew them in memories, it is a adressing technique.
 

It's about the byte ordering.

see https://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html for an explanation.
Especially when you make applications for the Mac you have to be aware of this since the old Mac use Big-endian and the new Intel based use Little-endian. So if you write applications for both and also use network routines you must write different code. [/url]
 

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