On 2008-05-13, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jed Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> This, of course, is because `od -x' regards the input as 16-bit integers.  We
>> can get saner output if we regard it is 8-bit integers.
>
> Yes, of course. The point was that for big-endian, the word size
> won't matter.  Little-endian words will be reversed with respect to
> the normal (left-to-right, most significant first) way we print
> numbers.

Right.  Because we print numbers backwards.

-- 
Aaron Denney
-><-

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