boolean (was... never mind)

[cepek at spanky.mgi.com]

 In article <4232 at castle.ed.ac.uk> aipdc at castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley)
 writes:
>Peeve: why doesn't C have a type "boolean" built in? It seems natural,
>and I'm sure there's some compiler somewhere that could use it to
>improve executables.

Among our "company-common" .H files, the compiler/target-machine dependent
one includes the following pseudo-types:

#define	bool	int8		/* smallest entity for TRUE or FALSE	*/
#define	boolean	int		/* fast/simple entity for TRUE or FALSE	*/

This allows the programmer to choose between space and speed.  "int8"
represents the smallest, "reasonable accessable" datum size available
for this particular compiler/target-machine.  "int" seems the logical
choice for boolean here, but perhaps on some machine somewhere a smaller
datum would be as easy/faster to use for the simple operations that
booleans are involved in.

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