Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:14:04 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 2) |
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Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 16:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> The changes are: >>> * u2 has been corrected to u1 (and also added it as __u1) >> Do we really need this? Is not 'bool' enough? > > I would say we don't even _want_ this. > A u1 variable will basically never be one bit wide. > It will be at least 8bit, or let's say 32bit. Maybe > even 64bit on some archs. It all depends on the compiler > plus the arch. > > We _don't_ want u1, because we don't get what we see.
For this and 1000 other reasons, we don't want u1.
Jeff
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