SPUTL(S) XENIX System V SPUTL(S)
Name
sputl, sgetl - Accesses long integer data in a machine-
independent fashion.
Syntax
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 for all
machines.
Starting at the address pointed to by buffer, sgetl
retrieves the four bytes in memory and returns the long
integer value in the byte ordering of the host machine.
sputl and sgetl provide a machine-independent way to store
long numeric data in binary form in a file without
converting to characters.
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