> That would be a great way to do this portably.
>
> I suspect oprofile won't be the only situation where this value
> would be useful, perhaps /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size?
The problem is this would trivially break cross-compilation. Would it
not be better to stick something in the glibc's bits/types.h
per-platform ?
Not that I particularly fancy going near glibc...
regards
john
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