
ColdFire Core
MCF5272 ColdFire
®
Integrated Microprocessor User’s Manual, Rev. 3
Freescale Semiconductor
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2.4.2
Organization of Integer Data Formats in Memory
All ColdFire processors use a big-endian addressing scheme. The byte-addressable organization of
memory allows lower addresses to correspond to higher order bytes. The address N of a longword data
item corresponds to the address of the high-order word. The lower order word is located at address N + 2.
The address N of a word data item corresponds to the address of the high-order byte. The lower order byte
is located at address N + 1. This organization is shown in
.
31
24 23
16 15
8
7
0
Longword 0x0000_0000
Word 0x0000_0000
Word 0x0000_0002
Byte 0x0000_0000
Byte 0x0000_0001
Byte 0x0000_0002
Byte 0x0000_0003
Longword 0x0000_0004
Word 0x0000_0004
Word 0x0000_0006
Byte 0x0000_0004
Byte 0x0000_0005
Byte 0x0000_0006
Byte 0x0000_0007
.
.
.
Longword 0xFFFF_FFFC
Word 0xFFFF_FFFC
Word 0xFFFF_FFFE
Byte 0xFFFF_FFFC
Byte 0xFFFF_FFFD
Byte 0xFFFF_FFFE
Byte 0xFFFF_FFFF
Figure 2-9. Memory Operand Addressing