[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] add VMSTATE_BOOL

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/09/2010 10:23 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void put_bool(QEMUFile *f, void *pv, size_t size)
> > > +{
> > > +    bool *v = pv;
> > > +    qemu_put_byte(f, *v);
> >
> > Is there a guarantee that bool is a single byte, BTW?
>
> Nope.  Does it matter?

No.  In fact I think QEMU makes (or tries to make) the QEMU dump format 
host-independent, and hence ABI-independent.  So, writing a single byte 
is better than writing sizeof(bool) bytes.

Paolo