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

[Tkil]

or, if you trust that perl was compiled sanely:

| $ perl -MConfig -le 'print $Config{longsize}*8' 
| 32

finally, i believe that some machines can have multiple
"personalities" in this respect.  SPARC linux was 64-bit kernel with
32-bit userland for a while (or maybe it was the other way around).
irix had a "feature" where it supported three different interfaces:
old 32-bit, new 32-bit, and new 64-bit (two APIs, two different
sizes).

so... maybe mike needs to be more clear about the bittiness (i like
it!) he is actually concerned with?

t.