Add documentation about the interation of the ARM assembler's -EB option and the...

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 This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should
 be marked as being encoded for a big-endian processor.
 
+Note: If a program is being built for a system with big-endian data
+and little-endian instructions then it should be assembled with the
+@option{-EB} option, (all of it, code and data) and then linked with
+the @option{--be8} option.  This will reverse the endianness of the
+instructions back to little-endian, but leave the data as big-endian.
+
 @cindex @code{-EL} command line option, ARM
 @item -EL
 This option specifies that the output generated by the assembler should