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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
Subject: Re: c++/5633: bool is too big
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020220154604.29843.qmail@sources.redhat.com> (raw)

The following reply was made to PR c++/5633; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
To: harald.soleng@nr.no
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/5633: bool is too big
Date: 20 Feb 2002 16:42:12 +0100

 harald.soleng@nr.no writes:
 
 [...]
 
 | >Description:
 | The bool variable takes up 4 bytes or 32 bits where 1 bit 
 | is sufficient.
 
 A bit isn't an object therefore we can't use a "1 bit" to represent bool
 objects, even if in the abstract it would suffice.
 
 The new ABI mandates sizeof (bool) == 1, so the above is no
 longer an issue.
 
 -- Gaby


             reply	other threads:[~2002-02-20 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-20  8:16 Gabriel Dos Reis [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-08  3:16 nathan
2002-02-08  3:06 harald.soleng

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