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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 4.22.0.upstream/4.22.0
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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/swab.3 b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/swab.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ec9f73a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/swab.3 @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:52:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 2001-12-15, aeb +.TH swab 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04" +.SH NAME +swab \- swap adjacent bytes +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "void swab(const void " from "[restrict ." n "], void " to "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " ssize_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR swab () +function copies +.I n +bytes from the array pointed +to by +.I from +to the array pointed to by +.IR to , +exchanging +adjacent even and odd bytes. +This function is used to exchange data +between machines that have different low/high byte ordering. +.PP +This function does nothing when +.I n +is negative. +When +.I n +is positive and odd, it handles +.I n\-1 +bytes +as above, and does something unspecified with the last byte. +(In other words, +.I n +should be even.) +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR swab () +function returns no value. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR swab () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR bstring (3) |