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==Coding Gotchas==
===== Unaligned Memory Access And Byte Order =====
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| style="background-color: #eeeeee;" | Various and newer ARM cores supposedly support unaligned memory access, but a specific bit or two have to be set and unset int he program control registers. I have not checked if QEMU's emulation of the ARMv7 supports it. So keep this in mind.
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Also, it is recommended to have a look at this article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianess#Atomic_element_size_16-bit Endianness] which will help clarify and potentially gives a second source of information.
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