how to detect OS architecture?

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:43:44 -0000, Hugo Florentino <hugo at acdam.cu> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:20:45 -0000, Regan Heath wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 04:22:23 -0000, Hugo Florentino <hugo at acdam.cu>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:13:18 +0100, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Make sure you handle if users have a 32bit OS installed on a
>>>> 64bit PC.
>>>
>>> As a matter of fact that was the actual configuration in the system I   
>>> wrote the app.
>>> I am now with a friend with the same configuration, and it also seems  
>>> to  be working.
>>> At work I use Windows 7 x86_64 and it also works.
>>
>> It works because the SYSTEM_INFO member "wProcessorArchitecture" is
>> defined to be "The processor architecture of the installed operating
>> system" .. note, *installed operating system*, not processor
>> architecture.
>>
>
> Well, isn't that what I needed to begin with?

Yes, I was just explaining 'why' it works :)

> That's why I said OS architecture instead of CPU architecture.
> Unless you are refering to something else.

I was just explaining for posterity/future readers.

R

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