Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Size of bool unspecified: why? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:46:40 +1200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <98ucugF5aaU5@mid.individual.net> References: <98ou27FaegU3@mid.individual.net> <98pi8pFroiU1@mid.individual.net> <98pp2qFroiU2@mid.individual.net> <98q5oiFroiU3@mid.individual.net> <2ba060fd-d11e-4cda-b0c8-1038a58b6cf6@a31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 6XGEbBboxYhh8WDpU60q6wcvCYS+SS+V51tH3MFWRcOuiBHtaA Cancel-Lock: sha1:M668IPZkwffFirIbkKJ758HpXE0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:8116 On 07/23/11 10:17 AM, JBarleycorn wrote: > "James Kanze" wrote: >> On Jul 22, 12:29 am, "JBarleycorn" wrote: >>> Ian Collins wrote: >> >>>> Again, how often is the size of a natural type important? >> >>> *Very* often. >> >> For example? You keep saying it's important, but I've only >> encountered the case in a few rare instances. (For starters, it >> can't be important in portable code.) >> >>>> How often in real code do you use a fixed width type? >> >>> *Very* often. >> >> Then there's something wrong with your programming style. >> >>> *Very* much more often than using non-fixed-width integral >>> types. >> >> Then there's something very wrong with your programming style. > > Contraire: you are limited by your paradigm (or choose to promote it for > ulterior reasons). (Or I'm so far ahead of you that you can't even see > the dust anymore... Beep! Beep!). Come on, enough piss and wind, let's see some real examples. If you have any that is... -- Ian Collins