Another note on this topic that in hindsight, should have been obvious, but it got me confused at the time: Just trying to dump the whole (or large parts of th

Another note on this topic that in hindsight, should have been obvious, but it got me confused at the time: Just trying to dump the whole (or large parts of the) instruction in octal will make things much more confusing. That's not what's meant by the "x86 is an octal machine" statement. It is only individual bytes, and only certain bytes, of the instruction the should be "separately" printed in octal, to make certain patterns easier to read. If you try to print a group of bytes in octal at once, irrelevant information from adjacent byte will be bundled into a single octal digit.