# endian.s -- Determine if this machine is big or little endian.
# "Big endian" means that the first byte of a number contains its
# largest powers of 2, which we call the "big end" of the number.
# So the big end comes first.
# The definition of little endian is analogous -- the first byte
# of the number contains the smallest powers of 2.  In other words
# the little end comes first.
#
# We'll put the number 0x12345678 into a word of memory so that it
# takes up 32 bits = 4 bytes.  The byte order will either be
# 12 34 56 78 for big endian or 78 56 34 12 for little endian.
	
	.data
array:		.space 40
big_str:	.asciiz "This machine is big endian.\n"
little_str:	.asciiz "This machine is little endian.\n"

	.text
main:
	li $s0, 0x12345678
	la $s1, array

	sw $s0, 0($s1)

	lb $s2, 0($s1)
	beq $s2, 0x12, equal

	li $v0, 4
	la $a0, little_str
	syscall
	j end

equal:
	li $v0, 4
	la $a0, big_str
	syscall

end:
	li $v0, 10
	syscall