So the module
Which module?
Assuming you mean Sys::Info, (Not that I would use that suite of modules anyway.), I have no idea, but it should.
Specifically, the code that deals with 'bitness' queries is Sys::Info::Base which is the base class for Sys::Info::OS. So the question being asked in your scenario above is the bitness of the OS, which should be 32-bit regardless of whether it is running on a 32-bit or 64-bit cpu. And if that is not what the module returns, it is wrong(ly specified).
The answer to what the OP really needs to know will always come back to why he needs to know it. With all the possibilities we have these days:
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS on a 32-bit processor.
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit processor
- 32-bit Perl running under a 64-bit OS on a 64-bit processor
- 64-bit Perl running under a 64-bit OS on a 64-bit processor
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS within a VM emulating a 32-bit processor, guesting on a 32-bit OS running on a 32-bit processor.
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS within a VM emulating a 32-bit processor, guesting on a 32-bit OS running on a 64-bit processor.
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS within a VM emulating a 32-bit processor, guesting on a 64-bit OS running on a 64-bit processor.
- 32-bit Perl running under a 32-bit OS within a VM emulating a 64-bit processor, guesting on a 64-bit OS running on a 64-bit processor.
- 32-bit Perl running under a 64-bit OS within a VM emulating a 64-bit processor, guesting on a 64-bit OS running on a 64-bit processor.
- 64-bit Perl running under a 64-bit OS within a VM emulating a 64-bit processor, guesting on a 64-bit OS running on a 64-bit processor.
- Other?
working out which piece of information is actually relevant to the OPs purpose is impossible until he states that purpose.
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