Le lundi 20 août 2007 à 19:36 +0100, Glynn Clements a écrit : > Benoit Rouits wrote: > > > > How can I tell if a given system is running a 32bit krnel or a 64bit > > > kernel. I a system capable of running either, but I cannot figure > > > out which kernel is installed on it. > > > > just make a C program like this: > > > > int main() > > { > > printf("address bus is %d bytes\n",sizeof(void*)); > > } > > and compile it with cc then run it. > > If it prints 8, it is a 64 bit OS, if it prints 4, it is a 32 bit OS. > > That tells you which architecture the program was compiled for, not > which architecture the kernel was compiled for. x86_64 can run both > 32- and 64-bit code. > well, if we have a 64-bit kernel /and/ a compiler for 64 bits architectures, i think that a long int must be 8 bytes, no ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html