$ByteOrdering

$ByteOrdering gives the native ordering of bytes in binary data on your computer system.

Possible values of $ByteOrdering are +1 and -1.

+1 corresponds to big endian (appropriate for 680x0 and many other processors); -1 corresponds to little endian (appropriate for x86 processors).

+1 corresponds to having the most significant byte first; -1 to having the least significant byte first.

+1 is the order obtained from IntegerDigits[n, 256].

$ByteOrdering gives the default setting for the ByteOrdering option in Import and Export.

See Section 2.14.5.

See also: $ProcessorType.

New in Version 4.