Re: [PATCH] time: tick-sched: use bool for tick_stopped

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 15:24:46 EST


On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 14:44 +0800, yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2018-04-20 09:47 AM, yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > [ZJ] Further prototyping has been given based on gcc for both of
> > x86_64 and armv8-a,
> > unsigned int and bool share the same 1 bytes without the
> > addtional storage for sure.
> > Open this and welcome if any other difference behaviour could be
> > captured.
>
> [ZJ] Typo.. change 4 bytes above to 1 byte actually.

Not really.

unsigned int is 4 and bool is generally 1.
Alignment padding after a bool may exist.