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sputl, sgetl



PURPOSE

Accesses long numeric data in a machine-independent fashion.

LIBRARY

Object File Access Routine Library (libld.a)

SYNTAX



                void sputl (value, buffer)  long sgetl (buffer)
                long value;                 char *buffer;
                char *buffer;



DESCRIPTION

The sputl subroutine stores the 4 bytes of the value parameter into memory
starting at the location pointed to by the buffer parameter.  The order of the
bytes is the same across all machines.

The sgetl subroutine retrieves 4 bytes from memory starting at the location
pointed to by the buffer parameter.  It then returns the bytes as a long value
with the byte ordering of the host machine.

Using sputl and sgetl subroutines together provides a machine-independent way
of storing long numeric data in an ASCII file.  For example, the numeric data
stored in the portable archive file format is accessed with the sputl and sgetl
subroutines.

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "frexp, ldexp, modf" and "ar."














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