Module dnstplib::byte

Utility functions for operating on bytes including splitting multi-byte integers into bytes and vice versa

Constants

• BYTEMASK_16 🔒
  8-bit mask for wiping out bits past a byte. Formatted as a 16-bit number
• BYTEMASK_32 🔒
  8-bit mask for wiping out bits past a byte. Formatted as a 32-bit number

Functions

• apply_split_bytes
• four_byte_combine
• four_byte_split
  Split a 32 bit number into it’s 8-bit quartered components
• push_split_bytes
• two_byte_combine
• two_byte_extraction
  Take two sequential bytes starting from idx in buffer and return a concatenated 2 byte number
• two_byte_split
  Take a 2 byte number and split it in to it’s two 8 bit halves