Programmer Humor

3GPP has an interesting way of serialising bools on the wire with ASN.1

NULL OPTIONAL

meaning only the type would be stored if true, otherwise it won't be set at all

This guy never coded in KEIL C on an 8051 architecture. They actually use bit addressable RAM for booleans. And if you set the compiler to pass function parameters in registers, it uses the carry flag for the first bit or bool type parameter.

Wait till you realise the size of SSD sectors

I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can't prove it though

pragma(pack) {

int a:1, b:1, ... h:1;

}

IIRC.

I mean is it really a waste? What's minimum amount of bits most CPUs read in one cycle.

...or you can be coding assembler - it's all just bits to me

7 Shades of Truth

Redundancy is nice in the event of bitflip errors

Pl/1 did it right:

Dcl 1 mybools, 3 bool1 bit(1) unaligned, 3 bool2 bit(1) unaligned, … 3 bool8 bit(1) unaligned;

All eight bools are in the same byte.

Could a kind soul ELI5 this? Well, maybe ELI8. I did quite a bit of programming in the 90-00s as part of my job, although nowadays I'm more of a script kiddie.

Now store the numbers (array):

0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2

think 8 bytes???

Does anybody ever figure in parity when comparing bit sizes and all that jazz or are we only ever concerned with storage space?