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    15 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.