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diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qendian.qdoc b/src/corelib/global/qendian.qdoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..85d600d7a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/corelib/global/qendian.qdoc @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). +** All rights reserved. +** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com) +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$ +** No Commercial Usage +** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed. +** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions +** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying +** this package. +** +** GNU Free Documentation License +** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free +** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software +** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of this +** file. +** +** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact +** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com. +** $QT_END_LICENSE$ +** +****************************************************************************/ + +/*! + \headerfile <QtEndian> + \title Endian Conversion Functions + \ingroup funclists + \brief The <QtEndian> header provides functions to convert between + little and big endian representations of numbers. +*/ + +/*! + \fn T qFromBigEndian(const uchar *src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + + Reads a big-endian number from memory location \a src and returns the number in the + host byte order representation. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is little-endian (such as x86) this + will swap the byte order; otherwise it will just read from \a src. + + \note Template type \c{T} can either be a qint16, qint32 or qint64. Other types of + integers, e.g., qlong, are not applicable. + + There are no data alignment constraints for \a src. + + \sa qFromLittleEndian() + \sa qToBigEndian() + \sa qToLittleEndian() +*/ +/*! + \fn T qFromBigEndian(T src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + \overload + + Converts \a src from big-endian byte order and returns the number in host byte order + representation of that number. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is little-endian (such as x86) this + will return \a src with the byte order swapped; otherwise it will return \a src + unmodified. +*/ +/*! + \fn T qFromLittleEndian(const uchar *src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + + Reads a little-endian number from memory location \a src and returns the number in + the host byte order representation. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is big-endian (such as PowerPC) this + will swap the byte order; otherwise it will just read from \a src. + + \note Template type \c{T} can either be a qint16, qint32 or qint64. Other types of + integers, e.g., qlong, are not applicable. + + There are no data alignment constraints for \a src. + + \sa qFromBigEndian() + \sa qToBigEndian() + \sa qToLittleEndian() +*/ +/*! + \fn T qFromLittleEndian(T src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + \overload + + Converts \a src from little-endian byte order and returns the number in host byte + order representation of that number. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is big-endian (such as PowerPC) this + will return \a src with the byte order swapped; otherwise it will return \a src + unmodified. +*/ +/*! + \fn void qToBigEndian(T src, uchar *dest) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + + Writes the number \a src with template type \c{T} to the memory location at \a dest + in big-endian byte order. + + Note that template type \c{T} can only be an integer data type (signed or unsigned). + + There are no data alignment constraints for \a dest. + + \sa qFromBigEndian() + \sa qFromLittleEndian() + \sa qToLittleEndian() +*/ +/*! + \fn T qToBigEndian(T src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + \overload + + Converts \a src from host byte order and returns the number in big-endian byte order + representation of that number. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is little-endian (such as x86) this + will return \a src with the byte order swapped; otherwise it will return \a src + unmodified. +*/ +/*! + \fn void qToLittleEndian(T src, uchar *dest) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + + Writes the number \a src with template type \c{T} to the memory location at \a dest + in little-endian byte order. + + Note that template type \c{T} can only be an integer data type (signed or unsigned). + + There are no data alignment constraints for \a dest. + + \sa qFromBigEndian() + \sa qFromLittleEndian() + \sa qToBigEndian() +*/ +/*! + \fn T qToLittleEndian(T src) + \since 4.3 + \relates <QtEndian> + \overload + + Converts \a src from host byte order and returns the number in little-endian byte + order representation of that number. + On CPU architectures where the host byte order is big-endian (such as PowerPC) this + will return \a src with the byte order swapped; otherwise it will return \a src + unmodified. +*/ + |