sputl(3X)                                               sputl(3X)



     NAME
          sputl, sgetl - access long integer data in a machine
          independent fashion

     SYNOPSIS
          void sputl (value, buffer)
          char *buffer;

          long sgetl (buffer)
          char *buffer;

     DESCRIPTION
          sputl takes the 4 bytes of the long integer value and places
          them in memory, starting at the address pointed to by
          buffer.  The ordering of the bytes is the same across all
          machines.

          sgetl retrieves the 4 bytes in memory, starting at the
          address pointed to by buffer, and returns the long integer
          value in the byte ordering of the host machine.

          Use of sputl and sgetl provide a machine independent way of
          storing long numeric data in a file in binary form without
          conversion to characters.

          A program that uses these functions must be loaded with the
          object file access routine library libld.a.

     SEE ALSO
          ar(4).

























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