Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!quintus!jabir
From: jabir@quintus.UUCP (Jabir Hussain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: adb bug?
Message-ID: <541@trantor.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 19:12:19 GMT
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 25
Keywords: SunOS 3.2 on a Sun 3/50


	% echo "xxxxxxxx" >! x
	%
	%
	% adb -w x
	'A'=X
	                41
	'AB'=X
	                4241
	'ABC'=X
	                42410043
	'ABCD'=X
	                42414443
	0?W 'ABCD' 'EFGH'
	0:              0x78787878      =       0x42414443
	4:              0x78787878      =       0x46454847
	$q
	%
	%
	% cat x
	BADCFEHG


the halfwords seem to be ok, but the bytes are swapped!
is this some sort of pdp-11-ism?