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how to set endianness in ARM Cortex-A8

ranjithkumar ds over 9 years ago

Hi,actually i need to run big endian code but i don't know how to set endian option in cp15 registers could any suggest me how to set EE bit set

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Peter Harris over 9 years ago +1 verified

Note that ARM does not support big endian code. Code is always little endian - only data accesses can be big endian. You can change data access endianness using the SETEND instruction: http://infocenter...

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0 ranjithkumar ds over 9 years ago in reply to Peter Harris

hi what is the meaning of "you may need to re-build your own compiler with big-endian support"?.
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0 ranjithkumar ds over 9 years ago in reply to Peter Harris

hi what is the meaning of "you may need to re-build your own compiler with big-endian support"?.
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0 Peter Harris over 9 years ago in reply to ranjithkumar ds

You will have to build a custom build of GCC, configured to include big-endian support.
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