On Wed Nov 27 13:07:31 EST 2013, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote:

> why is mips different (erik's version)?
>
> supermic% ./8.out
> 78780000
> mikro% ./v.out
> 7878
> rpi% ./5.out
> 78780000
>

because it's big endian.  what you're doing there is
putting bytes in specific positions.  in this case you have
bytes (in hex):

        0 0 78 78

on a little endian machine this is 0x78780000 and on a
big-endian machine this is 0x00007878.

- erik