Originally posted by: ed_AIX

Hello,

In Solaris there is the 'file' command which will tell you if a file is a 32-bit or 64-bit version. Is there an equivalent command in AIX that will tell me if a file is 32-bit or 64-bit? The AIX 'file' command does not report this it seems.

Thank you.
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Originally posted by: hdkutz

Hello,
man dump
should help you to find out.
<snip>
Kernel Type: 64-bit
-X mode
Specifies the type of object file dump should examine. The mode must be one of
the following:
32
Processes only 32-bit object files
64
Processes only 64-bit object files
32_64
Processes both 32-bit and 64-bit object files
d64
Examines discontinued 64-bit XCOFF files (magic number == U803XTOCMAGIC).
The default is to process 32-bit object files (ignore 64-bit objects). The mode
can also be set with the OBJECT_MODE environment variable. For example,
OBJECT_MODE=64 causes dump to process any 64-bit objects and ignore 32-bit
objects. The -X flag overrides the OBJECT_MODE variable.
<snip>

Also ldd command will help:
<snip>
$ ldd /usr/lib/libldapiconv.a
/usr/lib/libldapiconv.a needs:
/usr/lib/libc_r.a(shr.o)
/usr/lib/libiconv.a(shr4.o)
/unix
/usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
$ ldd /usr/lib/libldapiconv64.a
/usr/lib/libldapiconv64.a needs:
/usr/lib/libc_r.a(shr_64.o)
/usr/lib/libiconv.a(shr4_64.o)
/unix
/usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr_64.o)
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr_64.o)
$ which ldd
/usr/bin/ldd
<snip>

HTH,
ku
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