linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true

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Message-ID: <44CFCD35.8080103@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:52:53 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@...akeasy.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Shorty Porty <getshorty_@...mail.com>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>, larsbj@...lik.net,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lars Noschinski <cebewee@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> There is no enum involved.
> 
>>> There should be.  It makes more information available to the C 
>>> compiler, and it makes useful symbols available to the debugger.
> 
>> _Bool is a native C type; it has all the information the C compiler 
>> needs.
> 
> "#define true 1" however does not.
> 

I guess that's fair, although when you put it into a type _Bool they're 
going to devolve to pure constants.

	-hpa
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