@Nikhil the size of pointer is same as int i guess...so it differs on diff
machines...im not sure abt ur OS and architecture doubt tho...

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Nikhil Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:

> One more query. What if the architecture is 64 bit, but the OS is 32 bit?
> (Example windows XP)
>
> What will be the size of a pointer variable then?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Nikhil Gupta 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> @Aditi, Isn't the size of int variable 4 bytes in both the architectures?
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, aditi garg 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> it can also be found out by using printf("%d",sizeof(int)*8);
>>> Correct me if i am wrong...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:55 AM, rajeev bharshetty <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If pointer size is 4bytes then it is 32 bit machine and if 8 bytes it is
>>>> 64 bit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Nikhil Gupta <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do you find out if a machine is 32 bit or 64 bit?
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking since the size of pointer variable is different in the 2
>>>>> configurations, we can declare a pointer and use sizeof()
>>>>> Will that work?
>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
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