Hello, I would like to ask if we can implement an option for od to carry out end-to-end swaps of more than 2 bytes. >From what I can tell, neither od, nor od in combination with other coreutils programs, are capable of that at present.
I am specifically interested in 4 or 8 byte swaps since IEEE 754 single and double precision floats are 4 and 8 bytes respectively. But there's certainly no need to limit a byte-swapping feature to just these sizes. It appears this feature has been requested before, but from what I can tell it never went anywhere before. On looking at the documentation for the most recent coreutils, I don't see anything about a byte-swap option for od. A patch was posted in this message, but from what I can tell it was not incorporated into od. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00278.html Discussion seems to have gotten bogged down in minor issues. I am a capable C programmer so I don't mind the idea of modifying that patch or writing another one to implement this feature. I look forward to your comments. Robert Dodier PS. For the record here are links to the previous discussions I found. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00278.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-02/msg00077.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-04/msg00034.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00255.html _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
