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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:52:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Modified 2001-12-15, aeb
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.TH SWAB 3 2001-12-15 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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swab \- swap adjacent bytes
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #define _XOPEN_SOURCE
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.B #include <unistd.h>
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.sp
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.BI "void swab(const void *" from ", void *" to ", ssize_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR swab ()
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function copies \fIn\fP bytes from the array pointed
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to by \fIfrom\fP to the array pointed to by \fIto\fP, exchanging
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adjacent even and odd bytes.
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This function is used to exchange data
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between machines that have different low/high byte ordering.
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.LP
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This function does nothing when \fIn\fP is negative.
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When \fIn\fP is positive and odd, it handles \fIn\-1\fP bytes
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as above, and does something unspecified with the last byte.
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(In other words, \fIn\fP should be even.)
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR swab ()
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function returns no value.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR bstring (3),
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)
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