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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for structs with bool
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:53:51 -0700
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On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 14:39 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:19:54 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > A struct with a bool member can have different sizes on various
> > architectures because neither bool size nor alignment is standardized.
> 
> What's wrong with bools in structs?

See above.