os.major etc. on Linux

[René J. V. Bertin]

Gustaf Neumann wrote:

>> Doesn't Tcl have the equivalent of sizeof(void*) or sizeof(size_t)?
> see
>     puts $::tcl_platform(wordSize)
>     puts $::tcl_platform(pointerSize)
>     puts $::tcl_platform(machine)

Ah, interesting, thanks (I missed this one before).

Is there a theoretical difference between the wordSize and pointerSize 
(disregarding the fact that it's AFAIK language-dependent what size a long is)?

R.