Sockets in C: Little and Big Endian Machines

Part II in a beginner’s practical guide to creating a simple client-server application in C to be run locally (using TCP protocol).

Kyra Krishna
mycsdegree
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4 min readMay 22, 2023

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Courtesy of Uy Nguyen

One important but annoying part of network programming is endianness. Little and Big Endian are two different ways of storing multi-byte data on machines (eg. int, long…

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Kyra Krishna
mycsdegree

A computer science student with too many interests and just enough time to try them all.