There's no requirement that stacks grow upwards in Varvara. If your stacks grew downwards then you could use LE instructions to operate on 16-bit values on the

There's no requirement that stacks grow upwards in Varvara. If your stacks grew downwards then you could use LE instructions to operate on 16-bit values on the stack. You'd still need to support loading from BE memory into the LE stack but that might not be too bad (two 8-bit operations instead of one 16-bit operation). The device ports are also specified as BE so in theory you'd need to split those reads/writes up too. However, in almost all cases those are done directly from the stack values so I bet most ROMs would work fine with LE devices and LE stacks. LE devices would only cause issues when someone used 8-bit reads/writes from part of a 16-bit port.