On 01/26/2017 05:19 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
On the other hand, using bit or byte numbering, or left or right, seem to
depend on who is drawing a diagram and where they start numbering. There
is more consistency in description among big-endian architectures than among
little-endian, but there's clearly no hard and fast rule.
Funny, I was going to make the opposite claim: I've seen big-endian
architectures with architecture manuals where bits are numbered left
to right, consistent with bytes in a word, and others where the bits
are numbered right to left, consistent with the power-of-two bit
value, often numbered that way to make the descriptions of shift and
bit-extract instructions internally consistent. On the other hand, I
can't recall ever seeing a little-endian architecture whose manual
numbered bits left to right.
PowerPC numbers bits MSB to LSB (left to right). Conceptually it is
both big- and little-endian, if less so in common practice.
Xilinx MicroBlaze, originally big-endian, numbers bits left to right.
Most MB applications are now little-endian, to be compatible with ARM.
But I'll give you that point, bit numbering is inconsistent in both
big- and litle-endian architectures.
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