Re: sizeof bool > sizeof int ?!?

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan at oranda dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 11:55:31AM +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Den 03-Jul-98 15:15:06 skrev Gerald Pfeifer følgende om "sizeof bool > sizeof int ?!?":
> 
> > with egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release) on alphaev56-dec-osf4.0d
> > and -- surprise, surprise! -- sizeof bool > sizeof int !?!
> 
> >   bool  = 8
> >   short = 2
> >   int   = 4 
> >   long  = 8
> 
> > I find it _very_ hard calling this a feature!
> 
> > Even if it may be standards compliant, this is most surprising for
> > 95%[1] of all developers.
> 
> Possibly, but does it have any impact on the code? Apart form wasting huge
> amounts of memory, that is?

IIRC, the AXP series handle 64bit words faster than 32bit words due to
register width and/or instruction set.

Certainly code will run faster on most 32bit architectures using int's
(32 bits) rather than char's (8 bits), so it makes sense to use, e.g.

typedef int bool;

my £0.005 =)O|

Cheers,
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