Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/02/19/13:21:02
Sir,
You have got to be kidding.
For the record, the x86 architecture is little-endian, PowerPC, e.g., is
bid-endian. On the off chance that you're running Windows NT (and
Cygwin???) on an Alpha, I have to admit I don't know which byte ordering it
uses.
You will get the 16-bit output you want from od (any radix) if you run
Darwin PPC, MacOS X or LinuxPPC, among other systems.
Otherwise, what you request ain't gonna happen. If you want od to interpret
and display integers with sizes greater than 1 byte in a way that differs
from that of the local processor, you could create a hacked version of "od"
for your personal use.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 06:03 2002-02-19, David wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>Thank you for your reply to my message about the od utility: I wrote:
>
> >> I created at test file with 4 characters in it:
> >>
> >> HTTP
> >>
> >> Then, I run od -bcx and I get:
> >>
> >> 110 124 124 120 012 000
> >> H T T P \n \0
> >> 5448 5054 000a
>
>You wrote:
>
> > That is correct in this little-endian platform, see
> > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/l/little-endian.html
> >
> > >You can see that the hex values in the last line are reversed.
> > >I think they should be 4854 5450 000a.
> >
> > Only if you were on a big-endian platform.
>
>I can understand what you are saying if I interpret it to mean that the
>hex storage values on my machine WindowsNT - which I assume from you
>message is a big-endian platform - are faithfully represented by the
>output from the od -bcx display.
>
>What then surprises me is that the octal representation of this same
>storage is 110 124 124 120 which is what I would expect.
>
>It seems to me that you are suggesting that the only correct
>representation of the hex storage values would require od to ouput an
>ascii value of THPT. I reject, and od itself contradicts, this
>interpretation of the storage values as being meaningful.
>
>I urge you to reconsider your opinion and to modify od to output 4854 5450.
>
>David
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