From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2005-06-23T01:02:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How I can find out on which platform I am running (32/64 bits)?

Hi,

"Joachim Just" <joachim.just@onlinehome.de> writes:

> I wonder whether within ruby there is a method to find out on which  
> platform my application is running.
> 
> Unfortunately, the application has to know if it is a 32-bit or 64-bit  
> system.
> 
> Any hints are highly appreciated.


64-bit % ruby -ve 'p [0].pack("l!").size'
ruby 1.9.0 (2005-05-31) [x86_64-netbsd]
8

32-bit % ruby -ve 'p [0].pack("l!").size'
ruby 1.9.0 (2005-06-13) [i386-linux]
4

-- 
eban