From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-07-29T04:03:28+09:00
Subject: Re: checking if machine is 64-bit

On 7/29/07, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am checking if the machine is 64-bit by doing this:
>
>   require 'rbconfig'
>   is_machine_64_bit = ( Config::CONFIG["arch"] =~ /64/ )

Config::CONFIG['arch']
# "x86_64-linux"

> Is there a better way?

Not that i know of.

^ manveru