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On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 14:44 +0800, yuankuiz@codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2018-04-20 09:47 AM, yuankuiz@codeaurora.org wrote:
[]
> > [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.