Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes: > 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
Maybe I can have a look at what it takes. >> 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. I agree that's a bit more obscure. So I understand if you don't want to do that until there's some concrete usecase. Endianness for float types should be easier, I hope. Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP-encrypted email is preferred. Keyid C0B98E26. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance.