c++ - Bitshifting on little-endian and big-endian -
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will this:
((0x10203040 >> 24) & 0xff) == 0x10 always true on both little-endian , big-endian machines?
yes. endianness affects how bytes stored in memory. value of 0x10203040 270544960 regardless of whether it's first or last byte in memory 0x10.
to gratuitously borrow images wikipedia article on endianness, regardless of of these layouts our system uses:


the value of 0x0a0b0c0d still same.
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