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Chapter 4
Unaligned and Mixed-endian Data Access Support
This chapter describes the unaligned and mixed-endianness data access support for the processor.
It contains the following sections:
• About unaligned and mixed-endian support on page 4-2
• Unaligned access support on page 4-3
• Endian support on page 4-6
• Operation of unaligned accesses on page 4-13
• Mixed-endian access support on page 4-17
• Instructions to reverse bytes in a general-purpose register on page 4-20
• Instructions to change the CPSR E bit on page 4-21.