[NCLUG] simple way to determine 32 or 64 bit?

[thorson at aster.com]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Mike Loseke wrote:

>
>  Does anyone know of a simple way to determine whether your system is
> running 32 or 64-bit? Under Solaris this can be done using "isainfo -v"
> but I've not been able to find any similar method under Linux yet.

Here's what uname reports on my Itanium machine.

   $ uname -m
   ia64

Does that help?

Bill