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SWAB(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual SWAB(3)
NAME swab - swap adjacent bytes
LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h>
void swab(const void * restrict src, void * restrict dst, ssize_t len);
DESCRIPTION The function swab() 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 bzero(3), memset(3)
HISTORY A swab() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 March 4, 2012 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11