NAME
swab
—
swap adjacent bytes
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<unistd.h>
void
swab
(const
void * restrict src, void
* restrict dst, ssize_t
len);
DESCRIPTION
The functionswab
()
copies len bytes from the location referenced by
src to the location referenced by
dst, swapping adjacent bytes.
The argument len must be an even number. If len is less than zero, nothing will be done.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A swab
() function appeared in
Version 7 AT&T UNIX.