bit ordering and endianess
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I am reading a file byte-by-byte.
Say for example i have this byte: 0x41 (0100 0001) represented in hex.
Now, I want the first three bits of this byte, i.e (010).
I can use bitwise logic to extract the first three bits, but my question is will the first three bits be independent of endianess of the machine.(i.e they can't be 001)?
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