64bit integer problem?

[Mark Tinguely]

>  There isn't an ARM implementation that doesn't have little endian (or the 
>  option for big endian AFAIK). The bigger question is, why put the chip in 
>  big endian mode in the first place when little is the default?

In the XScale case, the (network) micro-engines are running in big endian.
Running the processor in big endian saves a lot of byte swapping.

--Mark Tinguely.