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-.\" References consulted:
-.\"     Linux libc source code
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-.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:52:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.\" Modified 2001-12-15, aeb
-.TH SWAB 3  2014-02-25 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.SH NAME
-swab \- swap adjacent bytes
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.BR "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" "       /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
-.B #include <unistd.h>
-.sp
-.BI "void swab(const void *" from ", void *" to ", ssize_t " n );
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.BR swab ()
-function copies
-.I n
-bytes from the array pointed
-to by
-.I from
-to the array pointed to by
-.IR to ,
-exchanging
-adjacent even and odd bytes.
-This function is used to exchange data
-between machines that have different low/high byte ordering.
-.LP
-This function does nothing when
-.I n
-is negative.
-When
-.I n
-is positive and odd, it handles
-.I n\-1
-bytes
-as above, and does something unspecified with the last byte.
-(In other words,
-.I n
-should be even.)
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-The
-.BR swab ()
-function returns no value.
-.SH ATTRIBUTES
-.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
-The
-.BR swab ()
-function is thread-safe.
-.SH CONFORMING TO
-SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR bstring (3)
-.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
-.I man-pages
-project.
-A description of the project,
-information about reporting bugs,
-and the latest version of this page,
-can be found at
-\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.