Packing booleans?

[Nathan Sidwell]

Sam Lauber wrote:
> Would it be possible to have a -fpack-bools option that packs booleans into
> the smallest form possible (8 booleans -> 1 8-bit reg, etc.) into a register
> (or memory, as the case may be)?

why would you want to do this?  Seems to me you might save up to 7 bytes
of data memory at a vastly greater expansion of code size and reduction
in performance.

nathan

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