NAME

       ms_bigendianhost - Determine host computer byte order

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libmseed.h>

       int  ms_bigendianhost ();

DESCRIPTION

       ms_bigendianhost is a run-time test of host computer byte order.  It is assumed that there
       are only two possible byte orders: Most Significant Byte First  (MSBF),  i.e.  big-endian,
       and Least Significant Byte First (LSBF), i.e. little-endian.  No middle-endian schemes are
       accounted for.

       Binary quantities in SEED are commonly big-endian, but it is not necessarily so.

RETURN VALUES

       ms_bigendianhost returns 1 if the host is big-endian and 0 if the host is little-endian.

AUTHOR

       Chad Trabant
       IRIS Data Management Center