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gethostsex(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     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.  delim off

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