From: "Cliff Woolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:29 AM
> On 4 Dec 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote:
>
> > Brian Pane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > >+ printf("Pointer size: %d\n", sizeof(void *));
> > > >
> > >
> > > How about
> > > printf("Pointer size: %d bits\n", 8*sizeof(void*)); ?
> > > to make it a bit less subtle?
> >
> > Yessir, that is a big improvement. If nobody comes up with a better
> > scheme or expresses a preference for an APR symbol then I'll go with
> > that.
>
> I was going to make the same suggestion... my only other thought would be
> maybe instead of "Pointer size" have it say something a little more
> non-programmer-friendly, but since I'm a programmer, I don't know what
> that would be. =-) "Architecture"? (If so, it would be "%d-bit" rather
> than "%d bits".)
Try perl -V for some ideas
Bill
