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Man Page: swab

Operating Environment: freebsd

Section: 3

SWAB(3) 						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						   SWAB(3)

NAME
swab -- swap adjacent bytes
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> void swab(const void * restrict src, void * restrict dst, ssize_t len);
DESCRIPTION
The function swab() copies len bytes from the location referenced by src to the location referenced by dst, swapping adjacent bytes. The argument len must be an even number. If len is less than zero, nothing will be done.
SEE ALSO
bzero(3), memset(3)
HISTORY
A swab() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
BSD
March 4, 2012 BSD
Related Man Pages
memcpy(3) - freebsd
bstring(3) - netbsd
swab(3c) - opensolaris
swab(3p) - posix
stpncpy(3) - freebsd
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