CPU_ARCH get the Operating System CPU architecture

This function retrieves the CPU architecture of the current operating system. The physical CPU architecture can be obscured and even determining it in high-level languages like Python is not exactly trivial. This method is as used by CMake.

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a: the CPU architecture as a character vector:

function a = cpu_arch()

if ispc()
  a = getenv("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE");
else
  [~, a] = system('uname -m');
  a = strip(a);
end

end

CPU_ARCH get the Operating System CPU architecture

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