Changing Byte Order Using Bitwise Operations
Understand endianness and how to change byte order in Bash using bitwise operations. Learn step-by-step how to manipulate bytes for system and driver programming tasks.
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Endianness
Bitwise operations are widely used in system programming. The specialists of this domain deal with computer networks, device drivers, and OS kernels. Translating data from one format to another is a common operation in these domains.
To understand these types of data translation, let’s suppose we want to write a driver for some peripheral device. The byte order on the device is big-endian. Our computer uses another order, which is ...