Question

Given you have a . 40 bit CPU The contents of memory are Address 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 Value Ox12 0x340x56 0x78 0x9AOxBCOxDE OxF10x23 What is the value of the word in HEX beginning at address 414 if the machine is Little Endian? If it is Big Endian? .Write your answer in HEX .Hex digits that are alphabetical should be written in uppercase o For example A and not a Make sure that 0x appears at the beginning of your answer Do not put whitespace in your answer Answers Little Endian: .Big Endian:

Answer 1

Little and big endian are two ways of storing multibyte data-types ( any data type like int, float, char).

In little endian machines,

last byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first. On the other hand,

in big endian machines,

first byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first.

So for the answer to the questions.

Little Endian:0xDE (value at the address of 418)

Big Endian: 0x56 (value at the address of 414)

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