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From: Ustyugov Roman <dr_unique@ymg.ru>
To: liyu <liyu@ccoss.com.cn>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A pettiness question.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:00:05 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509211200.06274.dr_unique@ymg.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43311071.8070706@ccoss.com.cn>

> Hi, All.
>
>     I found there are use double operator ! continuously sometimes in
> kernel.
> e.g:
>
>     static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
>     {
>         return page_count(page) - !!PagePrivate(page) == 2;
>     }
>
>     Who would like tell me why write like above?
>
>
>     Thanks in advanced.
>
>
> Liyu

For example,

	int test = 5;
	!test will be  0,  !!test will be 1.

This give a enum of {0,1}. If test is not 0, !!test will give 1, otherwise 0.

Am I right?
-- 
RomanU

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21  7:49 A pettiness question liyu
2005-09-21  8:00 ` Ustyugov Roman [this message]
2005-09-21  8:57   ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2005-09-21  9:01   ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-21  9:30     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-23  2:36       ` Vadim Lobanov
2005-09-21 15:08   ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-21 19:11 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-21 19:46 Nick Warne
2005-09-21 20:05 ` Vadim Lobanov
2005-09-22  7:10   ` Helge Hafting
2005-09-22 12:21     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-09-22 14:40       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-22  2:43 ` Fawad Lateef
     [not found] <4PiLw-2yn-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4Pj4M-3as-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4PtnM-1oW-55@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <4Pynh-fp-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-09-25 14:38       ` Bodo Eggert

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