## Copyright (C) 2007  David Bateman
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} swapbytes (@var{x})
## Swaps the byte order on values, converting from little endian to big 
## endian and visa-versa. For example
##
## @example
## @group
## swapbytes (uint16 (1:4))
## @result{} [   256   512   768  1024]
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @seealso{typecast, cast}
## @end deftypefn

function y = swapbytes (x)
  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  clx = class (x);
  if (strcmp (clx, "int8") || strcmp (clx, "uint8") || isempty (x))
    y = x;
  else
    if (strcmp (clx, "int16") || strcmp (clx, "uint16"))
      nb = 2;
    elseif (strcmp (clx, "int32") || strcmp (clx, "uint32"))
      nb = 4;
    elseif (strcmp (clx, "int64") || strcmp (clx, "uint64") ||
	    strcmp (clx, "double"))
      nb = 8;
    else
      error ("swapbytes: invalid class of object");
    endif
    y = reshape (typecast (reshape (typecast (x(:), "uint8"), nb, numel (x))
			   ([nb : -1 : 1], :) (:), clx), size(x));
  endif
endfunction