Subject: Re: bug#16578: Wish: Support for non-native endianness in od

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:09:49 +0000

On 02/10/2014 01:59 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>   $ time od.new -tx8 --endian=bug od.in
>>   4.97 elapsed
> 
> If you really used "--endian=bug" and there was no diagnostic, then there must have been a bug.  :-)

Ha!
I retyped incorrectly rather than copy/pasted.
I can confirm the params are checked correctly:

$ od -tx8 --endian=bug od.in
od: invalid argument ‘bug’ for ‘--endian’
Valid arguments are:
  - ‘little’
  - ‘big’
Try 'src/od --help' for more information.