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why byte ordering (endianess) is not an issue for standard C string?

My professor mentioned that byte ordering (endianess) is not an issue for standard C String (Char arrays):

for ex: char[6]="abcde";

But he did not explain why?

Any explanations for this will be helpful

Solution

  • A char takes up only one byte, thats why the ordering does not matter. for example, int has 4 bytes and these bytes could be arranged in little-endian and big-endian`.

    Eg: 0x00010204 can be arranged in two ways in memory:

    04 02 01 00 or 00 01 02 04

    char being a single byte will be fetched as single byte to CPU. and String is just a chararray.