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std.system

Information about the target operating system, environment, and CPU.

License:
Boost License 1.0.

Authors:
Walter Bright and Jonathan M Davis

Source:
std/system.d

enum OS;
Operating system.

Note:
This is for cases where you need a value representing the OS at runtime. If you're doing something which should compile differently on different OSes, then please use version(Windows), version(linux), etc.

See Also:
Predefined Versions

win32
Microsoft 32 bit Windows systems

win64
Microsoft 64 bit Windows systems

linux
All Linux Systems

osx
Mac OS X

freeBSD
FreeBSD

solaris
Solaris

otherPosix
Other Posix Systems

immutable OS os;
The OS that the program was compiled for.

enum Endian;
Byte order endianness.

Note:
This is intended for cases where you need to deal with endianness at runtime. If you're doing something which should compile differently depending on whether you're compiling on a big endian or little endian machine, then please use version(BigEndian) and version(LittleEndian).

See Also:
Predefined Versions

bigEndian
Big endian byte order

littleEndian
Little endian byte order

immutable Endian endian;
The endianness that the program was compiled for.