How can I tell if I'm running in 64-bit JVM or 32-bit JVM (from within a program)?

Question

How can I tell if the JVM in which my application runs is 32 bit or 64-bit? Specifically, what functions or properties I can used to detect this within the program?

Answer 1

This is the way JNA solves this with Platform.is64Bit() (https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/master/src/com/sun/jna/Platform.java)

 public static final boolean is64Bit() {
        String model = System.getProperty("sun.arch.data.model",
                                          System.getProperty("com.ibm.vm.bitmode"));
        if (model != null) {
            return "64".equals(model);
        }
        if ("x86-64".equals(ARCH)
            || "ia64".equals(ARCH)
            || "ppc64".equals(ARCH) || "ppc64le".equals(ARCH)
            || "sparcv9".equals(ARCH)
            || "mips64".equals(ARCH) || "mips64el".equals(ARCH)
            || "amd64".equals(ARCH)
            || "aarch64".equals(ARCH)) {
            return true;
        }
        return Native.POINTER_SIZE == 8;
}

ARCH = getCanonicalArchitecture(System.getProperty("os.arch"), osType);

static String getCanonicalArchitecture(String arch, int platform) {
        arch = arch.toLowerCase().trim();
        if ("powerpc".equals(arch)) {
            arch = "ppc";
        }
        else if ("powerpc64".equals(arch)) {
            arch = "ppc64";
        }
        else if ("i386".equals(arch) || "i686".equals(arch)) {
            arch = "x86";
        }
        else if ("x86_64".equals(arch) || "amd64".equals(arch)) {
            arch = "x86-64";
        }
        // Work around OpenJDK mis-reporting os.arch
        // https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8073139
        if ("ppc64".equals(arch) && "little".equals(System.getProperty("sun.cpu.endian"))) {
            arch = "ppc64le";
        }
        // Map arm to armel if the binary is running as softfloat build
        if("arm".equals(arch) && platform == Platform.LINUX && isSoftFloat()) {
            arch = "armel";
        }

        return arch;
    }

static {
        String osName = System.getProperty("os.name");
        if (osName.startsWith("Linux")) {
            if ("dalvik".equals(System.getProperty("java.vm.name").toLowerCase())) {
                osType = ANDROID;
                // Native libraries on android must be bundled with the APK
                System.setProperty("jna.nounpack", "true");
            }
            else {
                osType = LINUX;
            }
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("AIX")) {
            osType = AIX;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("Mac") || osName.startsWith("Darwin")) {
            osType = MAC;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("Windows CE")) {
            osType = WINDOWSCE;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("Windows")) {
            osType = WINDOWS;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("Solaris") || osName.startsWith("SunOS")) {
            osType = SOLARIS;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("FreeBSD")) {
            osType = FREEBSD;
        }
        else if (osName.startsWith("OpenBSD")) {
            osType = OPENBSD;
        }
        else if (osName.equalsIgnoreCase("gnu")) {
            osType = GNU;
        }
        else if (osName.equalsIgnoreCase("gnu/kfreebsd")) {
            osType = KFREEBSD;
        }
        else if (osName.equalsIgnoreCase("netbsd")) {
            osType = NETBSD;
        }
        else {
            osType = UNSPECIFIED;
        }
}