First, uint8_t is not the same thing as byte, and moreover – according to the Standard – it is optional and may be missing on platforms not supporting 8-bit integers.

A string of 8 bits. Typically, one byte equals one character of text but in some cases (especially with non-Latin alphabets), two or more bytes are used. Because of this, an SMS written in Cyrillic or ...

The order of numbers in a computer word. Byte order refers to the order of digits in computer words at least 16 bits long. See word. Big endian is how we normally deal with numbers: the most ...