linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings

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Message-ID: <1488888118.2210.28.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:01:58 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, kbuild-all@...org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, tipbuild@...or.com,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings

On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 10:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> To me a lexical 'true/false' instead of '1/0' is a step backwards in readability 
> in many cases

What cases are those to you?

I can't think of any case where 1/0 for true/false
is "more readable" for boolean returns to me.