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I've helped port a few open source systems to ARM. It's easy to write code which looks like C, but ends up being "x86ish C":

* Assume sizes of types, endian, that type of stuff (endian is particularly troublesome).

* The threading model is very different, and it's very easy to write a lot of code which works on the x86 threading model and then explodes in interesting ways when put on ARM.



And doesn’t ARM react quite badly to unaligned loads as well?

> endian is particularly troublesome

Arm is LE by default though.




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