Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:50:50 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit? Message-ID: <44ljdqevth.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <201003171636.o2HGaEwn029337@dc.cis.okstate.edu> (Martin McCormick's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:36:14 -0500") References: <201003171636.o2HGaEwn029337@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> writes: > One thing I discovered while trying this command out on > various systems is that if the system was originally built using > i386 code, it reports as i386 even though there is a 64-bit > platform struggling to get out. That sounds correct to me. It's reporting the architecture of the OS, not of the CPU, and that's what you actually need to know. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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