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a64l, l64a - convert between long and base-64
#include
<stdlib.h>
long a64l(const char *str64);
char *l64a(long value);
Feature
Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)
):
a64l(),
l64a():
_SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
These functions provide a conversion between 32-bit long integers
and little-endian base-64 ASCII strings (of length zero to six). If the string
used as argument for a64l() has length greater than six, only the first
six bytes are used. If the type long has more than 32 bits, then l64a()
uses only the low order 32 bits of value, and a64l() sign-extends its 32-bit
result.
The 64 digits in the base-64 system are:
aq.aq represents a 0
aq/aq represents a 1
0-9 represent 2-11
A-Z represent 12-37
a-z represent 38-63
So 123 = 59*64^0 + 1*64^1 = "v/".
The
l64a() function is not thread-safe.
The a64l() function is thread-safe.
POSIX.1-2001.
The value returned by l64a() may be a pointer to a static
buffer, possibly overwritten by later calls.
The behavior of l64a() is undefined
when value is negative. If value is zero, it returns an empty string.
These
functions are broken in glibc before 2.2.5 (puts most significant digit first).
This is not the encoding used by uuencode(1)
.
uuencode(1)
, strtoul(3)
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