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SWAB(3) Linux Programmer's Manual SWAB(3)

swab - swap adjacent bytes

#include <string.h>

void swab(const void *from, void *to, size_t n);

The swab() function copies n bytes from the array pointed to by from to the array pointed to by to, exchanging adjacent even and odd bytes. This function is used to exchange data between machines that have different low/high byte ordering.

The swab() function returns no value.

SVID 3, BSD 4.3

bstring(3)

April 13, 1993 GNU