Definition of "endianness" [endianness]

• The property of a computer of being either big-endian or little-endian. (noun)

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• "A common driver programming approach is described that allows drivers to be written without concern for platform-specific issues such as endianness and data ordering."
• "Lastly, can anyone recommend an affordable way to gain access to the various systems where I might test 32-bit, 64-bit systems of both big and little endianness?"
• "I've read quite a bit of AMF3 conversion code and they appear to try and account for endianness when dealing with floats/doubles, but not with ints."