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		beyondCritics 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: System.LongBool Turns out that old versions of Visual C++ used their own typedef of bool as int: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4897844/is-sizeofbool-de...

bobmcnamara 47 days ago [–]

There were risc platforms with int sized bool, usually where one byte math wasn't in the instruction set.

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