sputl(3X) — Interactive 2.2



          SPUTL(3X)            INTERACTIVE UNIX System            SPUTL(3X)



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

          SYNOPSIS
               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.

               A program that uses these functions must be loaded with the
               object-file access routine library libld.a.



























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