On 01/28/2014 12:54 PM, Niels Möller wrote: > For the "od" program, it would be nice with a flag to specify the > endianness for all types which are larger than a byte. Possible > alternatives could be "big endian", "little endian", "native endian".
I agree this would be useful and easy enough to add. I suppose the interface would be --endian=little|big We could augment that with specific byte order spec, but those two are probably enough. > And for floats, besides endianness, it would be nice to be able to > specify native format or ieee format, for systems where these are > different. That's a bit less useful I think and harder to implement. We say this in the info docs: "Almost all modern systems use IEEE-754 floating point, and it is typically portable to assume IEEE-754 behavior these days." thanks, Pádraig.
