Re: broken compiler?

[Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Seems like for the mips64 port, though we have big endian format within
> a word, when we do double word operations, the lower addressed word
> holds the contents of the most significant word ... ie, the significance
> is swapped. 
> 
> Is this architecture defined, or is there a register that needs to be
> programmed somewhere?

Read ``Data Formats and Addressing'' in Chapter 1 of the MIPS R4000
Microprocessor User's Manual for example.  Big endian should be big end first,
thus the higher byte has the lower address.

Ulf