ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP Glossary
Byte order
Determines the order in which a number of the
data types i,
decfloat16,
decfloat34,
f, s or a character in a
Unicode system is stored in the memory. A distinction is made between
big and
little endian. In the
former case, the system writes the byte with the highest level, and in the second case the byte with the lowest level, to the first position in the memory. The byte order on the current
application server can be derived from the static attribute ENDIAN in the
system class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES.