swab - swap adjacent bytes
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <unistd.h>
void swab(const void from[restrict .n], void to[restrict .n],
ssize_t n);
The swab() function copies n
bytes from the
array pointed to by from
to the array pointed to by
to
, exchanging adjacent even and odd bytes. This function is
used to exchange data between machines that have different low/high byte
ordering.
This function does nothing when n
is negative. When
n
is positive and odd, it handles n-1
bytes as above,
and does something unspecified with the last byte. (In other words,
n
should be even.)
The swab() function returns no value.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
swab() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
bstring(3)