scipy/scipy — pull request #251 by matthew-brett (2012-06-10 09:52:49+00:00)
Title: BF: fix for ticket 1173

There was an error in the logic for detecthing byte order for
little-endian matlab 4 mat files on big-endian machines.

I think this fix is correct, but I can't test it on a big-endian platform from where I am.