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TinyEndian
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Introduction
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TinyEndian is a minimal endianness library for the D programming language.  It has no
external dependencies, it only needs a D compiler and Phobos (standard library).
TinyEndian doesn't allocate memory and is fully **@nogc** to allow use in
high-performance code.

The API is not stable and may change in the future.

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Features
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* Swap byte order of 2- or 4-byte elements in an array in place.
* Read a UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 buffer, determine its endianness using a UTF
  byte-order-mark and convert it to system endianness in place.
* No external dependencies.
* pure, nothrow and @nogc.

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Directory structure
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Directory        Contents
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``./``           This README file, license, DUB package file.
``./source``     Source code.
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Usage
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Assuming you use `dub <http://code.dlang.org/about>`_, add this line::

   "tinyendian": { "version" : "~>0.1.0" }

to the ``"dependencies"`` in your project's ``dub.json``.

If you don't use dub, you can directly copy the ``source/tinyendian.d`` file into your
project.

TinyEndian requires DMD 2.066 or equivalent GDC/LDC.

Open ``source/tinyendian.d`` to read the API documentation.


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License
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TinyEndian is released under the terms of the
`Boost Software License 1.0 <http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt>`_.
This license allows you to use the source code in your own projects, open source
or proprietary, and to modify it to suit your needs. However, in source
distributions, you have to preserve the license headers in the source code and
the accompanying license file.

Full text of the license can be found in file ``LICENSE_1_0.txt`` and is also
displayed here::

    Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
    obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
    this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
    execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
    Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
    do so, all subject to the following:

    The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
    the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
    must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
    all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
    works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
    a source language processor.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
    IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
    SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
    FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
    ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
    DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


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Credits
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TinyEndian was created by Ferdinand Majerech aka Kiith-Sa kiithsacmp[AT]gmail.com .

Parts of code based on the ``std.stream`` Phobos module.

D:YAML was created using Vim and DMD Linux Mint as a YAML parsing library for the `D
programming language <http://www.dlang.org>`_.