[Info-vax] Hex display order option for DUMP ?

[John Reagan]

On Friday, July 23, 2021 at 4:12:10 PM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/23/21 2:08 PM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > On 2021-07-23, gah4 <ga... at u.washington.edu> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On little endian machines, od -x will give bytes to you in the order 
> >> 
> >> 1 0 3 2 5 4 7 6 9 8 11 10 13 12 15 14 
> >> 
> >> which isn't much easier to read than VMS order. It doesn't make 
> >> bytes easy, or 32 bit words (float), or larger values (double). 
> >> 
> >> I can get used to any of them, but I think I get used to the VMS 
> >> ordering faster. 
> >> 
> > 
> > For me, the one I go to on Linux is "hexdump -C". 
> > 
> > Of all the hexdump tools I have tried, the output from that command 
> > is the most readable for me. 
> > 
> > Simon. 
> >
> So port it to VMS and make it your contribution to the Open Source 
> on VMS collections. 
> 
> bill

I downloaded the hexdump.c/hexdump.h from the github link I posted earlier

Don't bother with the silly makefile.

$ cc/noopt/debug/define=(HEXDUMP_MAIN,HAVE_ERR=0) hexdump

int luaopen_hexdump() {
^
%CC-W-MISSINGRETURN, Non-void function "luaopen_hexdump" does not contain a return statement.
at line number 1887 in file WORK20:[JREAGAN]HEXDUMP.C;2
$ link hexdump
%ILINK-W-COMPWARN, compilation warnings
        module: HEXDUMP
        file: WORK20:[JREAGAN]HEXDUMP.OBJ;6
$ hexdump :== $work20:[jreagan]hexdump.exe
$ hexdump "-C" login.com
00000000  24 20 66 61 63 67 65 6e  20 3a 3d 3d 20 40 78 76  |$ facgen :== @xv|
00000010  6d 73 24 73 61 6c 65 6d  5f 72 65 73 64 24 3a 5b  |ms$salem_resd$:[|
00000020  62 75 69 6c 64 2e 73 79  73 62 6c 64 63 6f 6d 5d  |build.sysbldcom]|
00000030  66 61 63 67 65 6e 24 21  20 54 68 65 20 6c 69 6e  |facgen$! The lin|
00000040  6b 65 72 2c 20 61 6e 61  6c 79 7a 65 2c 20 6c 69  |ker, analyze, li|
00000050  62 72 61 72 2c 20 6c 62  72 2c 20 65 74 63 2e 20  |brar, lbr, etc. |
00000060  66 61 63 69 6c 69 74 69  65 73 20 61 6c 6c 20 68  |facilities all h|
00000070  61 76 65 20 61 20 73 69  6d 69 6c 61 72 24 21 20  |ave a similar$! |
00000080  73 63 68 65 6d 65 20 74  6f 20 70 61 73 73 20 69  |scheme to pass i|
00000090  6e 20 63 6f 6d 70 69 6c  65 20 61 6e 64 20 6c 69  |n compile and li|
000000a0  6e 6b 65 72 20 6f 70 74  69 6f 6e 73 2e 20 20 6c  |nker options.  l|
000000b0  69 62 72 61 72 2f 6c 62  72 20 69 73 20 61 20 62  |ibrar/lbr is a b|
000000c0  69 74 24 21 20 64 69 66  66 65 72 65 6e 74 20 69  |it$! different i|
000000d0  6e 20 74 68 61 74 20 69  74 20 64 6f 65 73 6e 27  |n that it doesn'|
000000e0  74 20 77 61 6e 74 20 74  68 65 20 6c 65 61 64 69  |t want the leadi|
000000f0  6e 67 20 73 6c 61 73 68  20 66 6f 72 20 74 68 65  |ng slash for the|
00000100  20 6c 69 6e 6b 65 72 24  21 20 6f 70 74 69 6f 6e  | linker$! option|