Typo in Types page
Philpax
phillip at philliplarkson.com
Sun Apr 6 02:47:03 PDT 2014
On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 09:30:47 UTC, Gustavo wrote:
> In the page http://dlang.org/type.html I believe there is a
> typo stating that bool is 1 byte instead of 1 bit.
While a boolean is by definition a single bit, it is represented
by programming languages as a byte for various reasons (including
performance, data layout, and interfacing). You can verify that
this is the case: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/8129625be797
As far as I know, this is true for most, if not all, native
programming languages. To actually store a value as a single bit,
you will have to use bit manipulation.
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