Unaligned and Mixed-endian Data Access Support
ARM DDI 0301H
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Figure 4-9 Store halfword, big-endian
If strict alignment fault checking is enabled and Address bit 0 is not zero, then a Data Abort is
generated and the MMU returns a Misaligned fault in the Fault Status Register.
4.3.10
Load word, little-endian
The addressed byte-quad is loaded from memory into the 32-bit general-purpose register so that
the least-significant addressed byte in memory appears in bits [7:0] of the ARM register, as
Figure 4-10 shows.
Figure 4-10 Load word, little-endian
If strict alignment fault checking is enabled and Address bits [1:0] are not zero, then a Data
Abort is generated and the MMU returns a Misaligned fault in the Fault Status Register.
4.3.11
Load word, big-endian
The addressed byte-quad is loaded from memory into the 32-bit general-purpose register so that
the most significant addressed byte in memory appears in bits [31:24] of the ARM register, as
Figure 4-11 on page 4-11 shows.
Register
31
23
15
7
0
x
x
B0
B1
B1
B0
Memory
Address
A[31:0]
7
0
+1
lsbyte
msbyte
b1
b0
Memory
Register
31
23
15
7
0
Address
A[31:0]
7
0
b3
b2
b1
b0
b2
+1
msbyte
lsbyte
b3
+2
+3