Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use

On 3/21/18 01:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On March 20, 2018 8:24:41 PM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>>> Yeah, I agree with that.  Just not using stdbool.h in those cases ought
>>> to be fine.  Any platforms where sizeof(bool) is 4 involves macos older
>>> than 10.5 and Windows platforms using MSVC versions older than 2003
>>> (didn't look further down either).
> 
>> Aren't there some somewhat modern architectures where that's still the case, for performance reasons? PPC or such?
> 
> Well, hydra (F16 on ppc64) has sizeof(bool) = 1.  Don't have any other
> good datapoints handy.  Presumably we'd set up configure to report
> what it found out, so it wouldn't take long to survey the buildfarm.

I've pushed the configure tests.  Let's see what they say.

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