Question

In Little Endian data format, the data is stored as

(a) MSB is stored at lower memory address and LSB at higher memory address

(b) LSB is stored at lower memory address and MSB at higher memory address

(c) MSB is stored at general purpose registers

(d) LSB is stored at general purpose registers

This question was addressed to me in an international level competition.

This interesting question is from Numeric Coprocessor in portion 32-bit Processors-80386, 80387 and 80486 of Microprocessor

Answer 1

Correct choice is (b) LSB is stored at lower memory address and MSB at higher memory address

To elaborate: In Little Endian data format, for a data of size bigger than 1 byte, the LSB is stored at lower memory address and MSB at higher memory address.