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   sputl(3X)                 (Specialized Libraries)                 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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