endianless

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adjective

Lacking endianness.

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Meanings

adjectiveendianless (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingLacking endianness.

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

    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, volume 58, number 6, American Chemical Society, →DOI, retrieved 12 Dec 2023, Supporting Material, Table S1
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    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.

    2005, James C. Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture (Wordware Applications Library), Plano, Texas: Wordware Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →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.

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

Origin

From endian + -less.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Danielness
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