I think you are better off in some sence as Andy says the 8052 has no inherent endian preference,as talking to our'senior programmer' at the last placed I worked he had absolutly no idea what endianness the processor we were using had and he was responsable for producing some very sophisicated crypto software,so I let him know the secret that the strongarm which we were using has user selectable endian-ness,an ambidextrous processor.