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# 6. Glossary

Network Byte Order Also known as Big-Endian. Which means the most significant byte comes first in storage. Sparc and Motorola 68k based chips are MSB ordered. (SDL defines this as SDL_BYTEORDER==SDL_BIG_ENDIAN) Little-Endian(LSB) is stored in the opposite order, with the least significant byte first in memory. Intel and AMD are two LSB machines. (SDL defines this as SDL_BYTEORDER==SDL_LIL_ENDIAN) For network addresses, `1.2.3.4` is always stored as `{0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04}`.

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