Some systems, such as Android, don't have a define for __WORDSIZE, do it in terms of __SIZEOF_LONG__, as done in perf since 2012: http://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/3f34f6c0233ae055b5 For reference: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html I build tested it here and Andrii did some Travis CI build tests too. Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>