swab - swap adjacent bytes
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ swab() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Description
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.)
History
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
swab - swap adjacent bytes
Return Value
The swab() function returns no value.
See Also
bstring(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 swab(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#define_XOPEN_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include<unistd.h>voidswab(constvoidfrom[restrict.n],voidto[restrict.n],ssize_tn);
