How to identity processor architecture

[arun kumar]

the size of the integer variable will be equal to your processor
architecture(32bit or 64 bit).

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Enrico Granata <egranata at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> What if one is compiling 32bit code on a 64bit processor? Would 4 be an
> acceptable result to you in that case?
>
> *Enrico Granata*
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>
> On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:07 PM, prabhu wrote:
>
> Hi Dear,
>
> I just wanna to know my processor architecture(32bit or 64 bit) through
> c programming.
>
> According to me the sizeof of pointer will give the result. Like below
> coding.
>
> int main()
> {
>    int *ptr;
>    printf("%d",sizeof(ptr));
> }
>
> Please correct me if i am wrong...
>
> Any suggestion or help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Prabhu
>
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