Data Item _array_structure.byte_order

General

Item name
_array_structure.byte_order
Category name
array_structure
Attribute name
byte_order
Required in PDB entries
yes
Used in currrent PDB entries
No

Item Description

The order of bytes for integer values which require more than 1 byte. (IBM-PCs and compatibles, and DEC VAXs use low-byte-first ordered integers, whereas Hewlett Packard 700 series, Sun-4 and Silicon Graphics use high-byte-first ordered integers. DEC Alphas can produce/use either depending on a compiler switch.)

Data Type

Data type code
ucode
Data type detail
code item types/single words (case insensitive) ...
Primitive data type code
uchar
Regular expression
[][_,.;:"&<>()/\{}'`~!@#$%A-Za-z0-9*|+-]*

Controlled Vocabulary

Allowed Value Details
big_endian The first byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an
integer value is the most significant byte of an integer.
little_endian The last byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an
integer value is the most significant byte of an integer.

Controlled Vocabulary at Deposition

Allowed Value Details
big_endian The first byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an
integer value is the most significant byte of an integer.
little_endian The last byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an
integer value is the most significant byte of an integer.