On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 07:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what's a simple way to tell if a system has a 32 or a 64 bit CPU? > > Possibly: cat /proc/cpuinfo not necessarily. for example, on an AMD 64-bit athlon laptop i have, that shows me that the model name is "Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+", but note that that's part of the model name, which could conceivably not have mentioned the 64-bit word size. i'm after (if it exists) a simple userspace utility that returns the word size of the actual architecture. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
