Does bit-shift depend on endianness?

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Endianness is the way values are stored in memory. When loaded into the processor, regardless of endianness, the bit shift instruction is operating on the value in the processor’s register. Therefore, loading from memory to processor is the equivalent of converting to big endian, the shifting operation comes next and then the new value is stored back in memory, which is where the little endian byte order comes into effect again.

Update, thanks to @jww: On PowerPC the vector shifts and rotates are endian sensitive. You can have a value in a vector register and a shift will produce different results on little-endian and big-endian.

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