gd_endianness(3) [debian man page]

gd_endianness(3)						      GETDATA							  gd_endianness(3)

NAME

       gd_endianness -- report the byte sex of fields in a dirfile

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       unsigned long gd_endianness(DIRFILE *dirfile, int fragment_index);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gd_endianness() function queries a dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile and returns the byte sex for the fragment indexed by frag-
       ment_index.  The byte sex of a fragment indicate the endianness of data stored in binary files associated with RAW fields  defined  in  the
       specified fragment.  The endianness of a fragment containing no RAW fields is not meaningful.

       The dirfile argument must point to a valid DIRFILE object previously created by a call to gd_open(3).

RETURN VALUE

       Upon  successful  completion, gd_endianness() returns the byte sex of the specified fragment, which will be either GD_BIG_ENDIAN or GD_LIT-
       TLE_ENDIAN, bitwise-or'd with either GD_ARM_ENDIAN or GD_NOT_ARM_ENDIAN, indicating whether double-precision floating point  data  in  this
       fragment  are  stored in the old ARM middle-endian format.  On error, it returns zero and sets the dirfile error to a non-zero error value.
       Possible error values are:

       GD_E_BAD_DIRFILE
	       The supplied dirfile was invalid.

       GD_E_BAD_INDEX
	       The supplied index was out of range.

       The dirfile error may be retrieved by calling gd_error(3).  A descriptive error string for the last error encountered can be obtained  from
       a call to gd_error_string(3).

SEE ALSO

       gd_alter_endianness(3), gd_getdata(3), gd_error(3), gd_error_string(3), gd_open(3), dirfile(5), dirfile-format(5)

Version 0.7.0							   17 July 2010 						  gd_endianness(3)

gd_put_string(3)						      GETDATA							  gd_put_string(3)

NAME

       gd_put_string -- retrieve a string from a dirfile database

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       int gd_put_string(DIRFILE *dirfile, const char *field_code, const char *data_in);

DESCRIPTION

       The gd_put_string() function queries a dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile and sets the STRING field_code , which should not contain a
       representation suffix, to the value specified in data_in.

       The dirfile argument must point to a valid DIRFILE object previously created by a call to gd_open(3).

       Because string values are stored in the dirfile metadata, the new value of field_code won't be written to disk until the  dirfile  metadata
       is flushed with gd_metaflush(3), or until the dirfile is closed.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, gd_put_string() returns the length of the string stored, including the trailing NUL character.  On error, it returns 0 and sets
       the dirfile error to a non-zero value.  Possible error values are:

       GD_E_BAD_CODE
	       The field specified by field_code was not found in the database.

       GD_E_BAD_DIRFILE
	       An invalid dirfile was supplied.

       GD_E_BAD_FIELD_TYPE
	       The supplied field_code referred to a field of type other than STRING.  The caller should use gd_putdata(3), or	gd_put_constant(3)
	       instead.

       GD_E_BAD_REPR
	       The representation suffix specified in field_code was not recognised.

       GD_E_BAD_TYPE
	       An invalid data_type was specified.

       GD_E_INTERNAL_ERROR
	       An  internal  error  occurred in the library while trying to perform the task.  This indicates a bug in the library.  Please report
	       the incident to the maintainer.

       GD_E_PROTECTED
	       The fragment containing the string was protected from change.

       The dirfile error may be retrieved by calling gd_error(3).  A descriptive error string for the last error encountered may be obtained  from
       a call to gd_error_string(3).

SEE ALSO

       dirfile(5), gd_metaflush(3), gd_open(3), gd_get_string(3), gd_error(3), gd_error_string(3), gd_putdata(3)

Version 0.7.0							    25 May 2010 						  gd_put_string(3)