Also , the below one could help. $ getconf LONG_BIT 64 $ Regards, Bala -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Henry Gebhardt Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:46 PM To: prabhu Cc: Enrico Granata; kernelnewbies Subject: Re: How to identity processor architecture On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:23:28PM +0530, prabhu wrote:
Any C programming technique apart from using this /proc/cpuinfo detail?
What about using the machine field of uname(2): $ man 2 uname Quoting from that man page: [...] the operating system presumably knows its name, release and version. It also knows what hardware it runs on. Perhaps a downside, it returns the machine type as a string. Does that do what you want? I also find "man linux32" rather interesting: setarch - change reported architecture in new program environment and set personality flags Might be useful for testing. Greetings, Henry _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies