In a multibyte data unit stored in big-endian order, at which address is the…

ISRO Scientist/Engineer SC · 2007 · Computer ScienceModified — slightly modified from the official paper; see the solutionBEL · Computer Science · 2007

In a multibyte data unit stored in big-endian order, at which address is the most significant byte stored?

  1. A.

    MSB of data in the lowest memory address of data unit

  2. B.

    LSB of data in the lowest memory address of data unit

  3. C.

    MSB of data in the highest memory address of data unit

  4. D.

    LSB of data in the highest memory address of data unit

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