On Sat 15 Jun 2024, Zac wrote: > > In a number of spots in dwm and st I've seen the use of integers as booleans. > e.g. > - dwm.c line 95, 140, 1870 > - drw.c line 252 > - st.c line 44, 48 > > That's not an extensive list; just some examples. > > I'm curious why you use ints though. Because bools are 31 bits smaller than > ints, which is 31 bits of memory saved. Not that 31 bits is very much, but > still...
You may want to refer to a textbook or make an online search about that assumption. On every architecture I have worked with, it would be *at least* a byte.
