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Re:Big-Endian Testing with QEMU by drob518 on Friday April 03, 2026 @04:53PM (#47632123)
Well, sort of. Instruction fetch is always little-endian but data load/store can be flipped into big. But IIRC the standard profiles specify little, so it's pretty much always going to be little. But yea, technically speaking data load/store could be big. Maybe that's important for some embedded environments.
Re:Big-Endian Testing with QEMU by hmry on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:28PM (#47632526)
> Well, sort of. Instruction fetch is always little-endian but data load/store can be flipped into big

ARM works the same way. And SPARC is the opposite, instructions are always big-endian, but data can be switched to little-endian.