NAME

       gd_endianness — report the byte sex of fields in a dirfile

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       unsigned long gd_endianness(DIRFILE *dirfile, int fragment_index);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gd_endianness() function queries a dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile and returns the byte sex
       for the fragment indexed by fragment_index.  The byte sex of a fragment indicate the endianness  of  data
       stored in binary files associated with RAW fields defined in the specified fragment.  The endianness of a
       fragment containing no RAW fields is not meaningful.

       The dirfile argument must point to a valid DIRFILE object previously created by a call to gd_open(3).

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, gd_endianness() returns the byte sex of the specified fragment, which will be
       either  GD_BIG_ENDIAN  or  GD_LITTLE_ENDIAN, bitwise-or'd with either GD_ARM_ENDIAN or GD_NOT_ARM_ENDIAN,
       indicating whether double-precision floating point data in this fragment are stored in the old  ARM  mid‐
       dle-endian format.  On error, it returns zero and sets the dirfile error to a non-zero error value.  Pos‐
       sible error values are:

       GD_E_BAD_DIRFILE
               The supplied dirfile was invalid.

       GD_E_BAD_INDEX
               The supplied index was out of range.

       The dirfile error may be retrieved by calling gd_error(3).  A descriptive error string for the last error
       encountered can be obtained from a call to gd_error_string(3).

SEE ALSO

       gd_alter_endianness(3),  gd_getdata(3), gd_error(3), gd_error_string(3), gd_open(3), dirfile(5), dirfile-
       format(5)

Version 0.7.0                                     17 July 2010                                  gd_endianness(3)