Re: Bug#401939: closed by Michael Stone <address@hidden> (Re: od dumps byte-swapped words instead of bytes)

[Bob Proulx]

Please maintain the CC to both the bug number and the mailing list
when responding.  Thanks.

David Lawyer wrote:
> This bug still exists.

Did you see my previous response to your bug report?  It appears that
you did not for some reason.  You can read the exchange in the bug
database here:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401939

Or in the mailing list archive here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00043.html

> > #401939: od dumps byte-swapped words instead of bytes

Yes.  That is the correct behavior.

> > Command is behaving as expected, no documentation changes have been 
> > proposed.
>
> Not so.  I just tried it again and got the same results with coreutils
> 5.97.

That comment I am sure referred to the fact that no suggestions were
proposed to improve the upstream documentation.  Since there were no
suggestions proposed the bug was closed.  The results of the command
remain the same because the command is behaving correctly.

This has since been documented in the coreutils FAQ:

  
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-_0027od-_002dx_0027-command-prints-bytes-in-the-wrong-order_002e

Hope this helps,
Bob