When I run a Hexdump using the command xxd -b "textile.txt"
in OS X, the terminal prints both the binary, and the actual ASCII equivalent in the right-most column, showing the text files contents in english.
If I create a simple C program which does little else then print 'hello world' to the terminal, and i save it as a .exec
file, the xxd -b
command output contains binary which, when translated, is nowhere to be found in the .exec files original pre-compile source code.
Example:
0002034: 00000101 00000000 00000010 01011111 01101101 01101000 ..._mh
000203a: 01011111 01100101 01111000 01100101 01100011 01110101 _execu
0002040: 01110100 01100101 01011111 01101000 01100101 01100001 te_hea
0002046: 01100100 01100101 01110010 00000000 00100001 01101101 der.!m
000204c: 01100001 01101001 01101110 00000000 00100101 00000010 ain.%.
I am assuming that the compiling process is responsible for this, which leads me to theorise that this output in the right-most column may in fact be Assembly code.
My Question in Summary: What is the nature of the hex dump output for .exec files, specifically: is it assembly code, and if not, then what is it?
Thanks in advance.