C++ and D bool compatibility

[bearophile]

Jeremy DeHaan:

> I was reading this:
> http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html
>
> And it mentions the various types and their compatibility with 
> one another, but it leaves out bools. It would be very useful 
> for me if it works out like this, but does anyone know off the 
> top of their heads/tried it before?

If it misses bool, then maybe that page needs a documentation 
patch.

bools in D are represented with 1 byte, 0 or 1.

In C++ their size is not fixed: "for Visual C++ 4.2, a call of 
sizeof(bool) yields 4, while in Visual C++ 5.0 and later, the 
same call yields 1."

Bye,
bearophile