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smj-edisontoday at 2:27 AM1 replyview on HN

> I happen to prefer big endian systems in my own development life because they are easier for me to work with, especially reading crash dumps.

If hex editors were mirrored both left to right and right to left, would it be easier to read little endian dumps?


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ronsortoday at 2:47 AM

xxd has the `-e` option for exactly this use case:

    -e          little-endian dump (incompatible with -ps,-i,-r).