On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:46:50PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Thanks Remi, the heap_words field of the stat record seems to be
> what I want. However sicne that field is in words, I'm looking
> for a way to figure out the word_size (4 vs 8 bytes) so I can
> do a calculation that is correct on 32 and 64 but systems.
> 
> Any further clues?

How about the strikingly appropriately named Sys.word_size? :)

cheers,
William