From: "Pablo Q." <paqs140482@...>
Date: 2008-09-04T07:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Can a Ruby program determine whether it's running on a 32-bit or 64-bit system?

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I got 4 on 64bit Windows Server. That doesn't mean that it depends if it was
built on 64bit or 32bit, I mean ruby core.

2008/9/2 Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org>

> Eric Promislow wrote:
> > Can a Ruby program determine whether
> > it's running on a 32-bit or 64-bit system?
>
> Yes.  Look at the result of calling the 'size' method on a Fixnum; it
> will be 4 on 32-bit machines, and 8 on 64-bit machines.
>
> >> 0.size
> => 4
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


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Pablo Q.

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