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.