sputl(3X)                                               sputl(3X)



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

SYNOPSIS
     void sputl(value, buffer)
     long value;
     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 provides 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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