Re: Endian options for "od"

[Bob Proulx]

dcoffin AT cybercom DOT net wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch, but it has several problems.  First, I'm not
> > sure we need short options, or that the documentation need call
> > out Intel and Motorola (after all, there are other chip
> > manufacturers as well, Motorola has spun off their chip division
> > to Freescale, etc.).

Agreed.

>      Actually, the use of "I" for Intel and "M" for Motorola
> is a longstanding tradition.  Every TIFF file begins with
> either "II" or "MM" to indicate byte order, and other file
> formats do likewise.

I disagree.  This is one area that definitely goes back a long time.
See this reference for example.

  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt

I suggest using the standard solution of specifying the size to be
byte sized.  This produces the same output on both platforms.

  echo abcdefgh | od -t cx1
  0000000   a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h  \n
          61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 0a
  0000011

Bob