12.3.4 Specifying Word Order for Output Words

There are two ways to split a wide word into consecutive memory locations in the same hex conversion utility output file:

• --order=MS specifies big-endian ordering, in which the most significant part of the wide word occupies the first of the consecutive locations.
• --order=LS specifies little-endian ordering, in which the least significant part of the wide word occupies the first of the consecutive locations.

By default, the utility uses little-endian format. Unless your boot loader program expects big-endian format, avoid using --order=MS.

NOTE

When the --order Option Applies

• This option applies only when you use a memory width with a value less than 16. Otherwise, --order is ignored.
• This option does not affect the way memory words are split into output files. Think of the files as a set: the set contains a least significant file and a most significant file, but there is no ordering over the set. When you list filenames for a set of files, you always list the least significant first, regardless of the --order option.