linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] sys/reboot: boolize C_A

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Message-ID: <1370221774.2096.7.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:09:34 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	liguang <lig.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] sys/reboot: boolize C_A_D

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 16:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> there's no rule
> which states that sizeof(bool) must equal sizeof(int).

For gcc, sizeof(_Bool) isn't sizeof(int) so it would
work for one endian but not the other.

gcc has sizeof(_Bool) == sizeof(unsigned char)

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