From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: double exclamation (!!) suckage in the kernel
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 22:36:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070525213649.GN4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070525213213.GM4095@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:32:13PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:26:11AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > also be brave enough to take a C quiz here :-)
> >
> > > what type should x have for !!x to be a valid expression?
> >
> > Any integer type (includes pointers)
>
> Er, no... Pointers are not integer types *and* you can use ! on any
> scalar type (including floating ones, even though it's not particulary
> useful there).
... which means that original question ("what type should x have...")
gets the answer "scalars, arrays or functions". The last two variants
give you constant 1, though (arrays and functions decay to pointers in
such context and that pointer is not going to be different from null
pointer of the same type; thus you get !!x => !0 => 1).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-25 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 20:23 double exclamation (!!) suckage in the kernel Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 20:28 ` Russell King
2007-05-25 20:32 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 20:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-05-25 20:41 ` Al Viro
2007-05-25 20:56 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 21:03 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 21:32 ` Al Viro
2007-05-25 21:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-05-25 21:37 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 21:14 ` David Miller
2007-05-26 13:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
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[not found] ` <8p4OH-3N0-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-26 16:38 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-26 16:50 ` Al Viro
2007-05-29 8:26 ` Bodo Eggert
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