1BYTEORDER(3bsd)                      LOCAL                     BYTEORDER(3bsd)
2

NAME

4     be16enc, be16dec, be32enc, be32dec, be64enc, be64dec, le16enc, le16dec,
5     le32enc, le32dec, le64enc, le64dec — byte order operations
6

SYNOPSIS

8     #include <sys/endian.h>
9     (See libbsd(7) for include usage.)
10
11     uint16_t
12     be16dec(const void *);
13
14     uint32_t
15     be32dec(const void *);
16
17     uint64_t
18     be64dec(const void *);
19
20     uint16_t
21     le16dec(const void *);
22
23     uint32_t
24     le32dec(const void *);
25
26     uint64_t
27     le64dec(const void *);
28
29     void
30     be16enc(void *, uint16_t);
31
32     void
33     be32enc(void *, uint32_t);
34
35     void
36     be64enc(void *, uint64_t);
37
38     void
39     le16enc(void *, uint16_t);
40
41     void
42     le32enc(void *, uint32_t);
43
44     void
45     le64enc(void *, uint64_t);
46

DESCRIPTION

48     The be16enc(), be16dec(), be32enc(), be32dec(), be64enc(), be64dec(),
49     le16enc(), le16dec(), le32enc(), le32dec(), le64enc(), and le64dec()
50     functions encode and decode integers to/from byte strings on any align‐
51     ment in big/little endian format.
52

SEE ALSO

54     byteorder(3)
55

HISTORY

57     The encode/decode functions first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.
58
59BSD                             April 29, 2002                             BSD