From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tbalamurugan@temenos.com (Thirugnanam Balamurugan) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:02:25 +0530 Subject: How to identity processor architecture In-Reply-To: <20110127111549.GA13744@bimsstein> References: <4D410BBF.10203@msys-tech.com><4D411359.2010905@msys-tech.com><4D412AC3.1060003@msys-tech.com><21BC6FAC-048B-42A7-AA7C-4A89B2D0714A@cs.ucsd.edu><4D414098.5010706@msys-tech.com> <20110127111549.GA13744@bimsstein> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Also , the below one could help. $ getconf LONG_BIT 64 $ Regards, Bala -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at 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 at kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies