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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for structs with bool
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:53:51 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, but so what?  `long' has different sizes on different
architectures too.