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Re: programmatically determining if the machine is intel or not
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Re: programmatically determining if the machine is intel or not


  • Subject: Re: programmatically determining if the machine is intel or not
  • From: Bob Kuehne <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:45:55 -0400

On May 17, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Jonathan Sand wrote:

Does anyone know of a way to programmatically determine whether ones Mac code is running on PowerPC or Intel hardware?

uname should do it:

    struct utsname un;
    uname( &un );
    printf( "%s\n", un.machine );

--
%man 3 uname
...
NAME
     uname -- get system identification

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/utsname.h>

     int
     uname(struct utsname *name);

DESCRIPTION
The uname() function stores nul-terminated strings of information identi-
fying the current system into the structure referenced by name.


The utsname structure is defined in the <sys/utsname.h> header file, and
contains the following members:


...

           machine       Machine hardware platform.

--


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