On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:32:28PM -0700, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> In C99, _Bool is required to map to one of the unsigned types (6.2.5/6).
Please quote the standard. I read something different there.
> However, GCC rejects the following (admittedly unethical) snippet:
> struct S7 {
> _Bool D : 8;
> } s7 = { 1 };
> with the error:
> unethical.c:2: error: width of `D' exceeds its type
Then read §6.2.5 2):
| An object declared as type _Bool is large enough to store the values 0
| and 1.
So it can store at most one bit of information, not 8 as requested.
Bastian
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