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in reply to Perlbrew 32 or 64 Perl

It depends on what you mean by "32 or 64 version".


If you want to check if it uses 32-bit integers or 64-bit integers, use the following:

perl -V:ivsize # use Config; say $Config{ivsize}

If you want to check if it uses 32-bit pointers or 64-bit pointers, use the following:

perl -V:ptrsize # use Config; say $Config{ptrsize}

If you want to check if it's a 32-bit program or a 64-bit program, use the following:

perl -V:archname # use Config; say $Config{archname}

This value is also included in the output of perl -v.


Note: You shouldn't be checking use64bitint or use64bitall as these indicate what parameters were passed to Configure rather than provide information about what was actually used.


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