• brian@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    sure, but if you have a single bool in a stack frame it’s probably going to be more than a byte. on the heap definitely more than a byte

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      10 hours ago

      but if you have a single bool in a stack frame it’s probably going to be more than a byte.

      Nope. - if you can’t read RISC-V assembly, look at these lines

              sb      a5,-17(s0)
      ...
              sb      a5,-18(s0)
      ...
              sb      a5,-19(s0)
      ...
      

      That is it storing the bools in single bytes. Also I only used RISC-V because I’m way more familiar with it than x86, but it will do the same thing.

      on the heap definitely more than a byte

      Nope, you can happily malloc(1) and store a bool in it, or malloc(4) and store 4 bools in it. A bool is 1 byte. Consider this a TIL moment.