netbsd man page for bswap

Query: bswap

OS: netbsd

Section: 3

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BSWAP(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  BSWAP(3)

NAME
bswap16, bswap32, bswap64 -- byte-order swapping functions
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <machine/bswap.h> uint16_t bswap16(uint16_t); uint32_t bswap32(uint32_t); uint64_t bswap64(uint64_t);
DESCRIPTION
The bswap16(), bswap32(), and bswap64() functions return the value of their argument with the bytes inverted. They can be used to convert 16, 32 or 64 bits integers from little to big endian, or vice-versa.
SEE ALSO
byteorder(3)
BSD
March 17, 1998 BSD
Related Man Pages
be16dec(9) - debian
be16toh(9) - debian
be32enc(9) - debian
bswap32(9) - debian
bswap64(9) - debian
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