tep_is_file_bigendian - Man Page

Get / set the endianness of the raw data being accessed by the tep handler​.

Synopsis

#include <event-parse​.h>

enum tep_endian {
        TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 0,
        TEP_BIG_ENDIAN
};

bool tep_is_file_bigendian(struct tep_handle *tep);
void tep_set_file_bigendian(struct tep_handle *tep, enum tep_endian endian);

Description

The tep_is_file_bigendian() function gets the endianness of the raw data, being accessed by the tep handler​. The tep argument is trace event parser context​.

The tep_set_file_bigendian() function sets the endianness of raw data being accessed by the tep handler​. The tep argument is trace event parser context​.

The endian argument is the endianness:
        TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN - the raw data is in little endian format,
        TEP_BIG_ENDIAN - the raw data is in big endian format​.

Return Value

The tep_is_file_bigendian() function returns true if the data is in bigendian format, false otherwise​.

Example

#include <event-parse​.h>
​.​.​.
struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
​.​.​.
        tep_set_file_bigendian(tep, TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN);
​.​.​.
        if (tep_is_file_bigendian(tep)) {
                /* The raw data is in big endian */
        } else {
                /* The raw data is in little endian */
        }

Files

event-parse​.h
        Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs​.
-ltraceevent
        Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library​.

See Also

libtraceevent(3), trace-cmd(1)

Author

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis​.org​[1]>, author of libtraceevent​.
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz​.stoyanov@gmail​.com​[2]>, author of this man page​.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@vger​.kernel​.org​[3]>

License

libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2​.1

Resources

https://git​.kernel​.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent​.git/

Notes

  1. rostedt@goodmis.org
    mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org
  2. tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
    mailto:tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
  3. linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
    mailto:linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org

Info

10/02/2026 libtraceevent 1.9.0 libtraceevent Manual