diff --git a/src/patchelf.cc b/src/patchelf.cc
index c62d7b69..fd4ebcab 100644
--- a/src/patchelf.cc
+++ b/src/patchelf.cc
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ class ElfFile
         bool operator ()(const Elf_Phdr & x, const Elf_Phdr & y)
         {
             // A PHDR comes before everything else.
-            if (y.p_type == PT_PHDR) return false;
-            if (x.p_type == PT_PHDR) return true;
+            if (elfFile->rdi(y.p_type) == PT_PHDR) return false;
+            if (elfFile->rdi(x.p_type) == PT_PHDR) return true;
 
             // Sort non-PHDRs by address.
             return elfFile->rdi(x.p_paddr) < elfFile->rdi(y.p_paddr);
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ unsigned int ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::getPageSize() const
     // Architectures (and ABIs) can have different minimum section alignment
     // requirements. There is no authoritative list of these values. The
     // current list is extracted from GNU gold's source code (abi_pagesize).
-    switch (hdr->e_machine) {
+    switch (rdi(hdr->e_machine)) {
       case EM_SPARC:
       case EM_MIPS:
       case EM_PPC:
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ void ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::writeReplacedSections(Elf_Off & curOff,
     for (auto & i : replacedSections) {
         std::string sectionName = i.first;
         Elf_Shdr & shdr = findSection(sectionName);
-        if (shdr.sh_type != SHT_NOBITS)
+        if (rdi(shdr.sh_type) != SHT_NOBITS)
             memset(contents + rdi(shdr.sh_offset), 'X', rdi(shdr.sh_size));
     }
 
@@ -778,9 +778,9 @@ void ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::rewriteSectionsLibrary()
     /* Some sections may already be replaced so account for that */
     unsigned int i = 1;
     Elf_Addr pht_size = sizeof(Elf_Ehdr) + (phdrs.size() + num_notes + 1)*sizeof(Elf_Phdr);
-    while( shdrs[i].sh_offset <= pht_size && i < rdi(hdr->e_shnum) ) {
+    while( rdi(shdrs[i].sh_offset) <= pht_size && i < rdi(hdr->e_shnum) ) {
         if (not haveReplacedSection(getSectionName(shdrs[i])))
-            replaceSection(getSectionName(shdrs[i]), shdrs[i].sh_size);
+            replaceSection(getSectionName(shdrs[i]), rdi(shdrs[i].sh_size));
         i++;
     }
 
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ void ElfFile<ElfFileParamNames>::rewriteSectionsLibrary()
     assert(curOff == startOffset + neededSpace);
 
     /* Write out the updated program and section headers */
-    rewriteHeaders(hdr->e_phoff);
+    rewriteHeaders(rdi(hdr->e_phoff));
 }
 
 
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index dbb7580e..db297386 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ src_TESTS = \
   force-rpath.sh \
   plain-needed.sh \
   output-flag.sh \
+  no-rpath-pie-powerpc.sh \
   build-id.sh
 
 build_TESTS = \
diff --git a/tests/no-rpath-pie-powerpc.sh b/tests/no-rpath-pie-powerpc.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5bdb7857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/no-rpath-pie-powerpc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#! /bin/sh -e
+set -x
+SCRATCH=scratch/no-rpath-pie-powerpc
+
+no_rpath_bin="${srcdir}/no-rpath-prebuild/no-rpath-pie-powerpc"
+
+if [ ! -f $no_rpath_bin ]; then
+  echo "no 'no-rpath' binary for '$ARCH' in '${srcdir}/no-rpath-prebuild'"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+rm -rf ${SCRATCH}
+mkdir -p ${SCRATCH}
+
+cp $no_rpath_bin ${SCRATCH}/no-rpath
+
+oldRPath=$(../src/patchelf --print-rpath ${SCRATCH}/no-rpath)
+if test -n "$oldRPath"; then exit 1; fi
+../src/patchelf \
+  --set-interpreter "$(../src/patchelf --print-interpreter ../src/patchelf)" \
+  --set-rpath /foo:/bar:/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ${SCRATCH}/no-rpath
+
+newRPath=$(../src/patchelf --print-rpath ${SCRATCH}/no-rpath)
+if ! echo "$newRPath" | grep -q '/foo:/bar'; then
+    echo "incomplete RPATH"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Tests for powerpc PIE endianness regressions
+readelfData=$(readelf -l ${SCRATCH}/no-rpath 2>&1)
+
+if [ $(echo "$readelfData" | grep --count "PHDR") != 1 ]; then
+  # Triggered if PHDR errors appear on stderr
+  echo "Unexpected number of occurences of PHDR in readelf results"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+virtAddr=$(echo "$readelfData" | grep "PHDR" | awk '{print $3}')
+if [ "$virtAddr" != "0x00000034" ]; then
+  # Triggered if the virtual address is the incorrect endianness
+  echo "Unexpected virt addr, expected [0x00000034] got [$virtAddr]"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "$readelfData" | grep "LOAD" | while read -r line ; do
+  align=$(echo "$line" | awk '{print $NF}')
+  if [ "$align" != "0x10000" ]; then
+    # Triggered if the target arch was not detected properly
+    echo "Unexpected Align for LOAD segment, expected [0x10000] got [$align]"
+    echo "Load segment: [$line]"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
diff --git a/tests/no-rpath-prebuild/no-rpath-pie-powerpc b/tests/no-rpath-prebuild/no-rpath-pie-powerpc
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..09462b82
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