First computer Unix run on was PDP. On PDP instructions and also short/int are
word aligned, so may be it's a reason.
Valery
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> From: Elazar Leibovich
>To: linux-il
>Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:16 AM
>Subject: Unix History: Why does hexdump default t
The default behaviour of hexdump is to align data word-wide. For instance
printf '\xFF\xFF\x01' | hexdump
000 0001
003
This makes little sense to me. In C, structs are not necessarily aligned to
words, and it doesn't seems useful to view about any data format for which
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