On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <dgood...@cisco.com
> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:36 AM, George Bosilca <bosi...@icl.utk.edu> wrote:
>
> > There is one minor thing I would suggest to change. In your patch
> in_unexpected_list is defined as a bool, which translates to an int on most
> platforms.
>
> This statement isn't true. sizeof(bool)==1 on my Mac and on our x86_64
> Linux cluster at Cisco. I only mention it because this seems to be a
> common myth for some reason.
>
On x86 or x86-64 with Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris or {Net,Open,Free}BSD
sizeof(_Bool) is 1. Same on PPC32 and PPC64 with Linux and Mac OSX. [I
grepped a heap of recent configure output to be sure].
I do agree, however, that if you are explicitly packing a structure you
should use uint8_t.
-Paul
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