MIPS assembly: big and little endian confusion
- by Barney
I've run the following code snippet on the MIPS MARS simulator. That simulator is little endian. So the results are as follows:
lui $t0,0x1DE # $t0 = 0x01DE0000
ori $t0,$t0,0xCADE # $t0 = 0x01DECADE
lui $t1,0x1001 # $t1 = 0x10010000
sw $t0,200($t1) # $t1 + 200 bytes = 0x01DECADE
lw $t2,200($t1) # $t2 = 0x01DECADE
So on a little endian MIPS simulator, the value of $t2 at the end of the program is 0x01DECADE. If this simulator was big endian, what would the value be? Would it be 0xDECADE01 or would it still be 0x01DECADE?
