Is it true that whether the architecture is big or little endian ,only the memory layout of numbers differ,that of the string is the same.
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Is it true that whether the architecture is big or little endian ,only the memory layout of numbers differ,that of the string is the same.
If you have a simple 8-bit character representation (e.g. extended ASCII), then no, endianness does not affect the layout, because each character is one byte.
If you have a multi-byte representation, such as UTF-16, then yes, endianness is still important (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Byte_order_encoding_schemes).