1.3.2 Byte Ordering

The bytes in a word in EMFSPOOL metafile records are numbered right-to-left  little-endian format.

Some computer architectures number the bytes in a word from left to right, which is called big-endian. The byte numbering used for bitfields in this specification is big-endian. Other architectures number the bytes in a binary word from right to left, which is referred to as little-endian. The byte numbering used for enumerations, objects, and records in this specification is little-endian.

Using the big-endian and little-endian methods, the number 0x12345678 would be stored as shown in the following table.