<!--$Id: db_is_byteswapped.so,v 11.15 2003/10/13 19:57:26 bostic Exp $--> <!--$Id: m4.tcl,v 11.28 2004/12/16 19:13:05 bostic Exp $--> <!--Copyright (c) 1997,2007 Oracle. All rights reserved.--> <!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> <html> <head> <title>Berkeley DB: db is_byteswapped</title> <meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> <meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <table width="100%"><tr valign=top> <td> <h3><i>db</i> <b>is_byteswapped</b></h3> </td> <td align=right> <a href="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/api_tcl/api_tcl.html"><img src="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/images/api.gif" alt="API"></a> <a href="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/ref/toc.html"><img src="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a></td> </tr></table> <hr size=1 noshade> <tt> <h3><pre>db is_byteswapped </pre></h3> <h3>Description(db is_byteswapped)</h3> <p>The <i>db</i> <b>is_byteswapped</b> command returns 0 if the underlying database files were created on an architecture of the same byte order as the current one, and 1 if they were not (that is, big-endian on a little-endian machine, or vice versa). This information may be used to determine if application data needs to be adjusted for this architecture or not.</p> <p>In the case of error, a Tcl error is thrown.</p> </tt> <table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right> <a href="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/api_tcl/api_tcl.html"><img src="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/images/api.gif" alt="API"></a><a href="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/ref/toc.html"><img src="../../db46-devel-4.6.21/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a> </td></tr></table> <p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2007 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> </body> </html>