bool => int or char?

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Am 03.11.2010 17:07, schrieb Jeremy Allison:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:02:18PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:59:12AM -0400, simo wrote:
>>> At the very least it would be an API change.
>>> Potentially also an ABI change, but why should we change it ? bool has
>>> been standard for quite a while now.
>>
>> Then our wbclient.h is broken. Apparently Shirish can not
>> compile the program due to this severe bug. Otherwise this
>> discussion would not have come up here.
> 
> Indeed :-). It's certainly a valid discussion :-). Do we include
> <stdbool.h> ? Still trying to find the answer on the bool == int
> question...

sizeof(bool) is 1.

I'm currently adding more checks to lib/replace/wscript,
so that that we see all the sizes in the build farm.

Currently we typedef bool to int, we the system doesn't have
bool, maybe we should change it to 'unsigned char', so
that sizeof(bool) is 1 there too.

metze

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