NAME

getbyteorder — get the current byte order

LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS

#include <util.h>
#include <sys/endian.h>

int
getbyteorder(void);

DESCRIPTION

getbyteorder() returns LITTLE_ENDIAN, BIG_ENDIAN, or -1 in case of an error, setting the global errno variable. The possible values for errno are the same as in sysctl(3).

SEE ALSO

sysctl(3)

HISTORY

The getbyteorder() function call appeared in NetBSD 7.0.