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+.\"     $OpenBSD: byteorder.3,v 1.5 1997/11/19 23:30:17 niklas Exp $
+.\"
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+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt BYTEORDER 3
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm htonl ,
+.Nm htons ,
+.Nm ntohl ,
+.Nm ntohs ,
+.Nm htobe32 ,
+.Nm htobe16 ,
+.Nm betoh32 ,
+.Nm betoh16 ,
+.Nm htole32 ,
+.Nm htole16 ,
+.Nm letoh32 ,
+.Nm letoh16 ,
+.Nm swap32 ,
+.Nm swap16
+.Nd convert values between different byte orderings
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <machine/endian.h>
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn htonl "u_int32_t host32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn htons "u_int16_t host16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn ntohl "u_int32_t net32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn ntohs "u_int16_t net16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn htobe32 "u_int32_t host32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn htobe16 "u_int16_t host16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn betoh32 "u_int32_t big32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn betoh16 "u_int16_t big16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn htole32 "u_int32_t host32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn htole16 "u_int16_t host16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn letoh32 "u_int32_t little32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn letoh16 "u_int16_t little16"
+.Ft u_int32_t
+.Fn swap32 "u_int32_t val32"
+.Ft u_int16_t
+.Fn swap16 "u_int16_t val16"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+These routines convert 16 and 32 bit quantities between different
+byte orderings.  The "swap" functions reverse the byte ordering of
+the given quantity, the others converts either from/to the native
+byte order used by the host to/from either little- or big-endian (a.k.a
+network) order.
+.Pp
+Apart from the "swap" functions, the names can be described by this form:
+{src-order}to{dst-order}{size}.
+Both {src-order} and {dst-order} can take the following forms:
+.Bl -tag -width "be "
+.It Em h
+host order
+.It Em n
+network order (big-endian)
+.It Em be
+big-endian (Most significant byte first)
+.It Em le
+little-endian (Least significant byte first)
+.El
+.Pp
+One of the specified orderings must be "h".
+{Size} will take these forms:
+.Bl -tag -width "32 "
+.It Em l
+long (32-bit, used in conjunction with forms involving "n")
+.It Em s
+short (16-bit, used in conjunction with forms involving "n")
+.It Em 16
+16-bit
+.It Em 32
+32-bit
+.El
+.Pp
+The "swap" functions are of the form: swap{size}.
+.Pp
+Names involving "n" convert quantities between network
+byte order and host byte order.  The last letter (s/l) is a mnemonic
+for the traditional names for such quantities, short and long,
+respectively.  Today, the C concept of "short"/"long" integers
+need not coincide with this traditional misunderstanding.
+On machines which have a byte order which is the same as the network
+order, routines are defined as null macros.
+.Pp
+The functions involving either "be", "le" or "swap" use the numbers
+(16/32) for specifying the bitwidth of the quantities they operate on.
+Currently all supported architectures are either big- or little-endian
+so either the "be" or the "le" variants are implemented as null macros.
+.Pp
+The routines mentioned above which have either {src-order} or {dst-order}
+set to "n" are most often used in
+conjunction with Internet addresses and ports as returned by
+.Xr gethostbyname 3
+and
+.Xr getservent 3 .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
+.Xr getservent 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm byteorder
+functions appeared in 
+.Bx 4.2 .
+.Sh BUGS
+On the
+.Tn vax ,
+.Tn alpha ,
+.Tn i386 ,
+and so far
+.Tn mips
+bytes are handled backwards from most everyone else in
+the world.  This is not expected to be fixed in the near future.