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 sputl(S)                       6 January 1993                       sputl(S)


 Name

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

 Syntax


    cc  . . .  -lld


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

    long sgetl (buffer)
    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.

 Standards conformance

    sgetl and sputl are conformant with:
    AT&T SVID Issue 2.