From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-07-29T04:50:01+09:00
Subject: Re: checking if machine is 64-bit

On Jul 28, 11:42 am, Suraj Kurapati <s...@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/ )
>
> Is there a better way?

if (2**33).kind_of?(Bignum)
   # 32 bit
else
   # 64 bit
end

Might need some tweaking once the 128 bit operating systems show up...

Regards,

Dan