Representing and Manipulating Information

2.1.3 addressing and Byte Ordering

For program objects that span multiple bytes, we must establish two conventions: what the address of the object will be, and how we will order the bytes in memory.

• In virtually all machines, a multi-byte object is stored as a contiguous sequence of bytes, with the address of the object given by the smallest address of the bytes used.
• for ordering the bytes representing an object, there are two common conventions.

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