How to know 64 bit or 32 bit

[CA1490051]

Hi all,

Can i know how to find out a HP-UX machine is 32 bit or a 64 bit machine. Is there any command for that.

Even if it is not a HP machine can i write a code snippet to find out whether i am using 32 bit machine or a 64 bit machine.

thanks in advance
Vikram

[Oviwan · Accepted solution]

Hey

type:
$getconf KERNEL_BITS

output will be 32 or 64

Regards

[Anshumali]

Hi,

You can use
getconf KERNEL_BITS
it will give you the O/P which you need.....

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Vikram:

# getconf KERNEL_BITS

...will tell you the "bitness" of your current kernel, e.g. "64"

# getconf HW_CPU_SUPP_BITS

...will tell you the "bitness" your hardware will support, e.g. "32/64"

# file filename

...will return:

"ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)" for a 64bit codefile, otherwise something like:

"PA-RISC1.1 shared executable" for a 32bit one.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Vikram,
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Even if it is not a HP machine can i write a code snippet to find out whether i am using 32 bit machine or a 64 bit machine.
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You mean if is not hpux.

Linux
# getconf LONG_BIT
32

AIX
# bootinfo -K
64

Solaris
# isainfo -kv
64-bit sparcv9 kernel modules

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[CA1490051]

Hi every one

Thank you very much for the reply.

This definitely solved my problem. But one thing i want to ask here for curiosity.

Can i write a code in C to tell this

for ex- to know a machine is little endian or big endian i can write like this.

union {
int Var;
char One;
}endian;

main ()
{
endian end;
end.Var = 0x01;
printf("%c",end.One);
}

thanks and regards
Vikram

[Dennis Handly]

>Can I write a code in C to tell this

You can only write a program to tell what size the current program is, not the kernel.

For HP-UX, you could test a define:
#ifdef __LP64__

Or for general LP64 machines:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
    printf("size of void*: %d\n", (int)sizeof(void*));
    return 0;
}