GCC not awre of MMU

[Jim Wilson]

Schaefer Philipp wrote:
> But this Code would work only Correct If  there would not be a MMU wich
> swaps Litle Endian to Big-endian Values in some part of Memory !!!

Try declaring the object as volatile.  Gcc won't change the memory 
access size for references to volatile objects, so it will load an 
entire word from memory and then convert to a short within the register.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com