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19 years ago

NIOS little endian or big endian?

Hi, I have a C application, which was written for an x86 processor (i.e. using little endian) and tried running the given test cases for the application but they failed. I know that the NIOS II...
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19 years ago

Also be carefull about the alignment of arrays and elements of structures.

PC-compilers will normally put arrays on at least 4 byte boundaries, where for nios for example an array of bytes can start for example at 2 byte boundaries.

You can use the align pragma to change this behaviour. (for members of structures, use packed and align toghether)