From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Dugger Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:22:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] platform detection at run-time Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org What's wrong with `uname -m'? On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:18:51PM -0400, Sane_Purushottam@emc.com wrote: > I have a linux application running on 32-bit machines. Due to some > third-party limitations, we cannot build this application on 64-bit machines > natively. Thus we'll be using the '32-bit compatibility mode'. > > For some application specific reasons, I need to be able to determine at > run-time whether the application is running on a 32-bit or a 64-bit > platform. > > What I have found is that there's no reliable way for the application to > determine whether it's running on a 64-bit machine. I use info obtained from > /proc/cpuinfo (more specifically family field) to determine the platform. > However this is not standard. On Redhat 7.1 (lk 2.4.3-12) family value is > set to IA-64 while on Redhat 7.2 (lk 2.4.9-34) this field is set to > 'Itanium'. > > What is the preferred method to determine the platform at run time ?? Are > these values likely to change (after I change my code to handle this) ???? > > Nitin Sane > sane_purushottam@emc.com > (508) 382-7319 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 -- Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale n0ano@n0ano.com