On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:40:35AM +0000, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > I'm wondering why sizeof(bool) is 1 byte in Intel platform and 4 bytes on > PPC ?
My guess is alignment. > Is it depends on version of gcc (2.95.3 on Intel, 2.96 on PPC) ? Certainly might be, although it's more likely to depend on the plaftom itself. > Can I somehow (some compiler flag) make them of same size ? I'm too lazy to check, but if it's possible, 'info gcc' will have the skinny. FYI, http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n843.htm only specifies that (6.2.5 Types): [#2] An object declared as type _Bool is large enough to store the values 0 and 1. Your friendly language lawyer wannabe, Muli. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
