I feel a bit ridiculous asking, but I can't seem to find an answer in any documentation and have yet to find anything in the forums (though answers in the latter always seem to elude me).

Anyway, I'm designing my system with a series of flags that mark when a player has accomplished something. I remember starting verge and looking through the Sully files and looking through it again, even the flags array uses ints. Am I to assume that verge does not support booleans?

As I understand it, every integer uses 32 bits, but a boolean should only use 1 for on/off. I figured it would be more efficient to use booleans, or am I missing something in the bigger picture?

Let me know if I'm completely off my rocker and need to put my nose in the corner of disgrace.

Quote:Originally posted by Kildorf

VergeC doesn't support booleans, you're right.
Good, at least I know I'm not crazy.

Basically, memory and disk space are so cheap that the trouble it would have been to implement a true boolean type would not have been worth it. Most C compilers use at least a full byte for booleans anyway, so unless Verge did its own special handling we wouldn't be saving anything.
Good point, and one that I was not even vaguely aware of. Again, I just want to make sure my programs are as efficient and compact as possible.

There are ways to treat an int as 32 separate bits but seriously they're way more trouble than they're worth.
I'll take your word for it.

I'll just scoot back into my corner and dress up a few of my ints like bools and everyone will be happy. Thanks for the info, it's much appreciated.