endianless

English

Etymology

endian +‎ -less

Adjective

endianless (not comparable)

1. (computing) Lacking endianness.
   • 2005, James C. Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture (Wordware Applications Library)‎^[1], Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 530:

     Note that the byte is endianless; that is, whether it is big-endian or little-endian, the MSB (most significant bit) is bit #7 and the LSB (least significant bit) is bit #0.

   • 2003, James C. Leiterman, Vector Game Math Processors (Wordware Game Math Library)‎^[2], Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 530:

     Shift the original value right by one! Note "M" and "L" denote most and least significant bits in big or little endian and 8 bit is endianless.

   • 2018 May 10, Alessandro Pedretti, Angelica Mazzolari, Giulio Vistoli, “WarpEngine, a Flexible Platform for Distributed Computing Implemented in the VEGA Program and Specially Targeted for Virtual Screening Studies”, in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling‎^[3], volume 58, number 6, American Chemical Society, →DOI, retrieved 2023-12-12, Supporting Material, Table S1:

     Functions to read and write IFF / RIFF files. They are endianless and support 64 bit chunks.

   • 2015 August 22, Victor Stinner, “7.4 Byte order marks (BOM)”, in Programming with Unicode Documentation, Release 2011‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 December 2023, page 22:

     BOM	Encoding	Endian
     0x2B 0x2F 0x76 0x38 0x2D (5 bytes)	UTF-7	endianless
     0xEF 0xBB 0xBF (3)	UTF-8	endianless
     0xFF 0xFE (2)	UTF-16-LE	little endian
     0xFE 0xFF (2)	UTF-16-BE	big endian
     0xFF 0xFE 0x00 0x00 (4)	UTF-32-LE	little endian
     0x00 0x00 0xFE 0xFF (4)	UTF-32-BE	big endian

Related terms

• big-endian
• little-endian
• byte order mark