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Re: sizeof (_Bool)


>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:

 > Since there are now millions of machines out in the field with
 > OS X on them, you can imagine that we're pretty worried about
 > binary compatibility - we don't want Grandma's family pictures
 > trashed by a newly-downloaded iPhoto!

#if 0
Doh!  Forget grandma (http://people.redhat.com/aldyh/grandma/), she
already has her own web page.  What really worries me is my own
traveling pictures are all done with iPhoto
(people.redhat.com/~aldyh/).
#endif

 > So we're proposing to make _Bool's size target-specific, and
 > to add a macro something like BOOL_TYPE_SIZE that can default

uhhh, speak of which... What is apple doing for vector long, or is
that just context sensitive in the front end?  There's been some
recent debate about bool defined to signed in <altivec.h>

aldy


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