sizeof bool > sizeof int ?!?

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

    Gerald> On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Per Bothner wrote:
    >> The last time this came up, I lobbied for making sizeof(bool)
    >> be 1 byte.  I see little reason for making sizeof(bool) >
    >> sizeof(short) [...]  Well, guess what?  I think most
    >> programmers *expect* sizeof(bool) to be 1 - but we are
    >> violating their very reasonable expectation.

    Gerald> I just checked and GCC 2.95.2 and Alpha still has sizeof
    Gerald> bool == 8, even with -fnew-api!

The IA64 C++ ABI specifies that the size and alignment of `bool' are
one.  Efficiency aside, that's what everyone expects `bool' to be, and
that's what it will be with -fnew-abi in the very near future.

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