| Version: 3.1.5

Byte Order
Functions and Macros by Category

The endian-ness issues (that is the difference between big-endian and little-endian architectures) are important for the portable programs working with the external binary data (for example, data files or data coming from network) which is usually in some fixed, platform-independent format.

The macros are helpful for transforming the data to the correct format.