4-byte integer 0x12345678 (305419896 decimal) be ordered natively
(arranged in and handled by the CPU registers) into bytes as
- 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # little-endian
- 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # big-endian
+ 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # big-endian
+ 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # little-endian
Basically, the Intel, Alpha, and VAX CPUs are little-endian, while
everybody else, for example Motorola m68k/88k, PPC, Sparc, HP PA,