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Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- To: Thomas dot Koenig at ciw dot uni-karlsruhe dot de (Thomas König)
- Subject: Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 00:23:51 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199709301300.OAA01773@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>you write:
> - system_header_p as char saves no space, since the struct gets padded
> anyway
But if we want to add more fields later it may save space.
> - It may slow down processing infinitesimally (converting to/from int)
Or it may speed it up. It's target dependent.
> - using chars as Booleans are a bad idea, anyway
Why?
> - This patch shuts up a spurious warning by checkergcc (which is why I
> did it in the first place)
What is the warning?
jeff