What is the technical word associated to the binary representation of types?
c++, endianness, programming-languages, terminology
Solution
It is "data model". Relevant again after the long stability of 32-bit computing, different choices were made in 64-bit architectures. Windows is LLP64, Linux is LP64. Reference is here.
Problem
I am currently writing a function that tests endianness and `sizeof()` fundamental types in C++ in order to dectect if the system/compiler is "classic" or non-standard. I search a name for this function, like `checkSystemSOMETHING()` but I don't know the word associated to things like binary representation of types or endianness. What would be the best word to replace `SOMETHING` ?