[issue22012] struct.unpack('?', '\x02') returns (False,) on Mac OSX

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren added the comment:

> On 20 jul. 2014, at 10:32, Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Mark Dickinson added the comment:
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>> In practice, I doubt that Python's going to meet such platforms in a hurry.
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> Hrm; looks like that's not a particularly safe assumption, especially with older compilers that might do a "typedef int _Bool"

I'm not sure about the actual definition, but at least for OSX on PPC sizeof(bool) is not 1. I ran into this with pyobjc when I tried to treat BOOL and bool the same.

All of this is with Objective-C, but the same should be true for plain C.

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title: struct.unpack('?', '\x02') returns (False,) when Python is built with clang -> struct.unpack('?', '\x02') returns (False,) on Mac OSX

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