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little endian and big endian
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endian.c
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
int i = 1093173256;
int k = htonl(i);
printf("%d %d\n", i, k);
return 0;
}
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In a intel CPU platform, it will print 1093173256 142616641.

oct -> hex:

41 28 80 08 08 80 28 41

It means:

little endian:
| byte3 | byte2 | byte1 | byte0 |

big endian
| byte0 | byte1 | byte2 | byte3 |

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