gdb print /x always big endian order?

[Bill Gatliff]

JK: 


Indeed.  If you want to see endianness, use 'x' instead, and ask it for a 
string of hex bytes.  :^) 


b.g. 


Andreas Schwab writes: 

> J K <ellips@yahoo.com> writes: 
> 
>>  It seems in GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.1-1) when
>>  I do a print /x the order is Big Endian regardless
>>  of the host architecture.
> 
> The print command just prints a value, and values don't have endianess.
> Only memory contents have. 
> 
> Andreas. 
> 
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