You, sir, are too kind. I'm really trying hard to get us to 17ESR and then see where we are. You can play with 13 if you like, and 14 should be out soon, along with the stable releases that we base on 10ESR. But to answer my own trivia question, sizeof(bool) on PowerPC is 32 bits. As a followup, there are at least some proposals that "the Web" should be little-endian. Certain web apps that use native-endianness constructs like ArrayBuffer will refuse to run on a big-endian system (Mozilla Broadway comes to mind). It does turn out that, contrary to my posting on this thread, that the PowerPC 970 can use the byte-shifting instructions like lwbrx and friends, so I wonder what Microsoft's sticking point was. I'm toying with implementing this anyway, though the W3C, characteristically, is dragging its feet. http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/24/the-little-endian-web/ -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- I used to miss my ex-girlfriend, but then my aim improved. -----------------