swap_bytes(9)

swap_bytes(9) 💅

okay so this is a Kernel API Manual page, and the main character is swap_bytes(9) — no cap, it's giving kernel-API bestie energy 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

swap_bytes — swap two elements a byte at a time 🎀

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

the signature is literally this:

void swap_bytes (void *a , void *b , size_t n );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• a — pointer to the first element to swap 💖
• b — pointer to the second element to swap ✨
• n — element size 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this is the fallback if alignment doesn't allow using larger chunks — that's the whole tea, periodt 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the group chat aka SEE ALSO: Kernel file ./lib/sort.c; is_aligned(9); swap_words_32(9); swap_words_64(9); parent(9); sort_r(9); sort_r_nonatomic(9) 🦋

— that's the page, bestie: from ./lib, dated October 2026, and it's swap_bytes(9) at the very end 🫶✨