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gethostsex(3)

NAME

gethostsex - get the byte sex of the host machine

LIBRARY

The gethostsex() function has moved from the standard C library to the libmld.a library. Programs that need to use gethostsex() must be linked with the -lmld flag.

SYNOPSIS

int gethostsex()

DESCRIPTION

The gethostsex function returns one of two constants BIGENDIAN or LITTLEENDIAN for the sex of the host machine. These constants are in sex.h.

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