L3TOL(3,L)                  AIX Technical Reference                  L3TOL(3,L)



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l3tol, ltol3



PURPOSE

Converts between 3-byte integers and long integers.

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)

SYNTAX



                void l3tol (lp, cp, n)      void ltol3 (cp, lp, n)
                long *lp;                   char *cp;
                char *cp;                   long *lp;
                int n;                      int n;



DESCRIPTION

The l3tol subroutine converts a list of n 3-byte integers packed into a
character string pointed to by the cp parameter into a list of long integers
pointed to by the lp parameter.

The ltol3 subroutine performs the reverse conversion, from long integers (lp)
to 3-byte integers (cp).

Note:  These routines, which in the past were useful for file system
       maintenance, are no longer needed as the AIX PS/2 and AIX/370 file
       systems use 4-byte block numbers.

Warning:  The numerical values of the long integers are machine-dependent
because of possible differences in byte ordering.

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