sputl(3X) sputl(3X)
NAME
sputl, sgetl - access long integer data in a machine-
independent fashion
SYNOPSIS
cc [flag . . . ] file . . . -lld [library] . . .
#include <ldfcn.h>
void sputl (long value, char *buffer);
long sgetl (const char *buffer);
DESCRIPTION
sputl takes the four 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 four 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.
The combination of sputl and sgetl provides a machine-
independent way of storing long numeric data in a file in
binary form without conversion to characters.
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