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/*!
    \headerfile <QtEndian>
    \title Endian Conversion Functions
    \ingroup funclists
    \brief The <QtEndian> header provides functions to convert between
    little and big endian representations of numbers.
*/

/*!
    \internal
    \fn T qFromUnaligned(const void *ptr)
    \since 5.5

    Loads a \c{T} from address \a ptr, which may be misaligned.

    Use of this function avoids the undefined behavior that the C++ standard
    otherwise attributes to unaligned loads.
*/

/*!
    \internal
    \fn void qToUnaligned(T t, void *ptr)
    \since 4.5

    Stores \a t to address \a ptr, which may be misaligned.

    Use of this function avoids the undefined behavior that the C++ standard
    otherwise attributes to unaligned stores.
*/


/*!
    \fn T qFromBigEndian(const void *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.

    \note Since Qt 5.7, the type of the \a src parameter is a void pointer.

    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 void *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.

    \note Since Qt 5.7, the type of the \a src parameter is a void pointer.

    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, void *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.

    \note Since Qt 5.7, the type of the \a dest parameter is a void pointer.

    \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, void *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.

    \note Since Qt 5.7, the type of the \a dest parameter is a void pointer.

    \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.
*/