>>> the Endian-ness question [...] will affect more or less every bit-mask in the
>>> NDK/SDK, which would mean every application would need to be recompiled.

>> When porting from PPC to another ISA, recompilation of all binaries would
>> have to happen irrespective of endianness. That's a no-brainer.

> Recompiling and re-doing things like masking is not the same thing.

Then you meant to actually write "redone" (i.e. source code adapted) when you wrote "recompiled". But I think that would affect far from "every application".

>> I fail to see where bit swapping would be required with a MorphOS
>> compiled for a little-endian ABI.

> dib graphics is one, blit masking is another, sound processing
> will likewise be affected.

Ah, you mean data endianness. I was thinking about code endianness, that's why I misunderstood.