linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

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Message-ID: <44BEC5DA.4020807@bigpond.net.au>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:52:58 +1000
From:	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se wrote:
> Citerar Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>:
>> Please, show compiler flag[s] to enable warning[s] from gcc about
>>
>> 	_Bool foo = 42;
>>
>> Until you do that the whole activity is moot.
> On it...

Would not the compiler treat 42 as a Boolean expression (as opposed to 
an integer expression) that evaluates to true and set foo accordingly. 
I.e. there's only a problem here if foo ends up with the value 42 
instead of the value true.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@...pond.net.au

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