The Old New Thing

September 6, 2006 - The Old New Thing

In case of fire, go to lunch

September 6, 2006 Sep 6, 2006 09/6/06
Raymond Chen
Late one morning, the fire alarm went off at work. Everybody dutifully filed out of the building and waited for the all-clear signal. A few of us looked at each other and said, "Let's go to lunch." "I'll drive." "Shotgun...

You already know what your target architecture is (or at least you should)

September 6, 2006 Sep 6, 2006 09/6/06
Raymond Chen
Sometimes the questions I see make me shake my head in wonderment. How do I determine programmatically what processor architecture my program was compiled for? I want the x86 version of my program to behave differently from the ia64 version. Is there some API I can call? Note that this person isn't asking whether the program is running ...