From: Jan Dvorak <jan.dvorak@...>
Date: 2008-09-03T09:57:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Can a Ruby program determine whether it's running on a 32-bit or  64-bit system?

On Wednesday 03 September 2008 02:39:37 Eric Promislow wrote:
> I can't go by RUBY_PLATFORM -- I'm setting up a new 32-bit Linux box,
> and RUBY_PLATFORM is set to "i686-linux".
Well, i?86 means it is 32bit.
64-bit x86 system would have 'x86_64-linux'.

Jan