NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       gethostsex - get the byte sex of the host machine

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       int gethostsex( );

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 option.

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

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



                                                    gethostsex(3)