NAME

l3tol, ltol3 − convert between 3-byte integers and long integers

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

void l3tol (long ∗lp, const char ∗cp, int n);

void ltol3 (char ∗cp, const long ∗lp, int n);

DESCRIPTION

l3tol converts a list of n three-byte integers packed into a character string pointed to by cp into a list of long integers pointed to by lp. 

ltol3 performs the reverse conversion from long integers (lp) to three-byte integers (cp).

These functions are useful for file-system maintenance where the block numbers are three bytes long. 

SEE ALSO

fs(4)

NOTES

Because of possible differences in byte ordering, the numerical values of the long integers are machine-dependent. 

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