in reply to Perl API for 32 bit or 64 bit system on Unix

I don't know how you might find out directly. You could try perl -V which will give you a complete configuration summary for your version of perl. Its kind of indirect evidence but often informative.

using perl -V, you will get osname, osversion and archname which should give you a good idea of what platform your version of perl was compiled for. "use64bitint", "use64bitall", "intsize" will all help determine how you can use perl on the platform (use 64bitint = undef for 32 bit platform and intsize = 8 for 64 bit).

Hope that helps
PJ
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Re: Re: Perl API for 32 bit or 64 bit system on Unix
by matija (Priest) on May 12, 2004 at 16:31 UTC
    how to find out directly 
    use Config qw/config_vars/;

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    then examine 
    $use64bitint $use64bitall $uselongdouble

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    etc...
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      This is not correct, since you can build perl with 64bit support on 32bit machines.
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