How does one check whether the host is 64bitty? Like in the above
"#if" or is there another (standard) way?
Unfortunately there is no failsafe way. This is because as a cross
compiler gcc from 32-->64 bit does not get things like:
#if ((~0UL)==0xffffffff)
... 32bit version ...
#else
... 64bit version ...
#endif
correct at all. I think it should be in an asm header file
personally, but if you notice the check for 64-bit is often done as:
#if defined(__sparc_v9__) || defined(__alpha__)
#endif
which is pretty unclean and should be fixed up. But at the moment
there is no other reliable way to check it.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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