Bit and Byte Ordering

• Endianness (Little-Endian vs Big-Endian), Network Byte Order, etc.
• Simply Explained: Byte Ordering
• Big Endian and Little Endian
• Why are both little- and big-endian in use?
• Use cases for Little Endian and Big Endian
• Bit Ordering vs Byte Ordering
• IEN 137: On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
  • Origin of the names ‘Big-Endian’ and ‘Little-Endian’ came from Gulliver’s Travels, as defined in IEN 137!
• Network
  • Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian?
  • Network Byte Order
  • htons() function in socket programing
  • htons(), ntohs(), htonl(), ntohl(), etc.
    • n = Network Byte Order
    • h = Host Byte Order
    • s = Short (Size)
    • l = Long (size)