In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Michael Yanowitz wrote: >...... >> >>> I need to detect whether the operating system I am running on (not the >>> Python version) is 64bit or 32bit. One requirement is that I need to >>> include support for non-Intel/AMD architectures. >> >> The standard C way would be to check sizeof(void *). >so on those old ARM RISC OSes with 32 bit arithmetic would I get sizeof(void >*) >== 4 when the address bus was 26 bits wide? And the original 68000-based Macs where you would get the same sizeof(void *), but the address bus was only 24 bits wide. Nevertheless, you were supposed to pretend that addresses were a full 32 bits in size. The programs that didn't got into trouble later. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
