As not American, wanna appologize for Microsoft Windows in the name of the American people xD

Sorry to hear that, I guess it’s hard to accept even after so long time. Hope he will be okay! I sometimes forget, how important it is to spend more time with family, if/untill you can.

I have a solution with a bit fields. Now your bool is 1 byte :

struct Flags {
    bool flag0 : 1;
    bool flag1 : 1;
    bool flag2 : 1;
    bool flag3 : 1;
    bool flag4 : 1;
    bool flag5 : 1;
    bool flag6 : 1;
    bool flag7 : 1;
};

Or for example:

struct Flags {
    bool flag0 : 1;
    bool flag1 : 1:
    int x_cord : 3;
    int y_cord : 3;
};