MIPS: accessing memory addresses with big/small endian

260 views Asked by George Daskalakis At 17 June 2015 at 11:50

I am a bit confussed on the whole big-small endian thing. Let's say we have the following memory addresses and we have a small endian machine.

0x10   00 03 02 05
0x14   A3 08 F1 F0

if I want to load the first word would I do this:

lw $16, 0x10($0)

or this:

lw $16, 0x13($0)

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