Re: gboolean definition and size

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann godzilla ICS UCI EDU> writes: 
> Is there any reason for gboolean to have a different size? 

IIRC it used to be a byte, but there were dozens of bugs introduced by
that, so we just gave up and made it an int.
 
> I tried to search the mailing list archive, and didn't find any
> discussion of this, I hope it has not been beaten to death in the
> past... 

The change was a really long time ago, pre-1.2 at least. Maybe not
pre-1.0 though, I'm not sure.

Havoc