On Wed, 4 May 2005, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
Sam Lauber wrote:Would it be possible to have a -fpack-bools option that packs booleans into
the smallest form possible (8 booleans -> 1 8-bit reg, etc.) into a register
(or memory, as the case may be)?
why would you want to do this? Seems to me you might save up to 7 bytes of data memory at a vastly greater expansion of code size and reduction in performance.
Unless you are using an architecture with btst, bset, bclr instructions.
