Re^3: I need to know if 32-bit or 64-bit perl is running my script.

But if the kernel determines where stuff is placed in a struct and the kernel can run both 32- and 64-bit executables, you're still fuct.

That is certainly not the case for Intel processors. Even running under 64-bit kernels; 32-bit processes only use 32-bit pointers.

Plus some weird architectures like AS/400 (relevant for AIX) use 128bit pointers even on 32bit ALUs.

I know naff all about AS/400, but since the original AS/400 hardware was 48-bit; and it has all been 64-bit for the last decade or so; one wonders whether the question is even relevant for such hardware?

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Re^4: I need to know if 32-bit or 64-bit perl is running my script. by mbethke (Hermit) on Sep 14, 2013 at 18:00 UTC
True about the 32bit pointers, I just assumed Su^H^HOracle had changed something about the struct layout in 64bit versions. Otherwise the whole problem shouldn't exist as the change would be transparent to whatever C code retrieves the struct and passes it to Perl. In any case that's the leven the problem should be solved on. Actually I've never written anything for AS/400 either and especially with IBM's compatibility-back-to-the-60s fetishism you're right that it shouldn't matter at all. Wonder why the OP seemed to have a similar problem there.	[reply]

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Re^4: I need to know if 32-bit or 64-bit perl is running my script.
by mbethke (Hermit) on Sep 14, 2013 at 18:00 UTC

True about the 32bit pointers, I just assumed Su^H^HOracle had changed something about the struct layout in 64bit versions. Otherwise the whole problem shouldn't exist as the change would be transparent to whatever C code retrieves the struct and passes it to Perl. In any case that's the leven the problem should be solved on. Actually I've never written anything for AS/400 either and especially with IBM's compatibility-back-to-the-60s fetishism you're right that it shouldn't matter at all. Wonder why the OP seemed to have a similar problem there.

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