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PowerPC Little-Endian Support

PowerPC microprocessors, which normally address data in big-endian format, provide two separate mechanisms to support little-endian and mixed-endian systems:

These mechanisms are discussed in this section.

Byte-Reversed Load and Store Instructions

Little-Endian Processing Mode


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