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SPUTL ( 3X ) SPUTL ( 3X )
NAME
sputl, sgetl - access long numeric data in a machine independent
fashion
SYNOPSIS
sputl ( value, buffer )
long value;
char *buffer;
long sgetl ( buffer )
char *buffer;
DESCRIPTION
Sputl(3X) will take the 4 bytes of the long value and place them in
memory starting at the address pointed to by buffer. The ordering
of the bytes is the same across all machines. Sgetl will retrieve
the 4 bytes in memory starting at the address pointed to by buffer
and return the long value in the byte ordering of the host
machine.
The usage of sputl(3X) and sgetl in combination provides a
machine independent way of storing long numeric data in an ASCII
file. The numeric data stored in the portable archive file format
(see ar(4)) is written and read into/from buffers with sputl(3X)
and sgetl respectively.
A program which uses these functions must be loaded with the
object file access routine library libld.a.
SEE ALSO
ar( 4).
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