On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Peter Philipp wrote:
> I just tested running hexdump -x on two different systems. One system is a
> macppc and the other and amd64. On the same file the order (endian) of the
> hexpairs are swapped. Is this supposed to be like that?
>
> If there was an effort to make hexdump -x endian safe, which order should it
> prefer (little or big)? And if it shouldn't be changed is there a chance for
> an extra flag that would make it endian-safe?
I think hexdump should dump in the native format.
Thwere's no such thing as a single endian safe format. What about
pdp11 byte order, alignments, float formats, etc?
-Otto
