From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: ternary vs double exclamation
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:37:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150108063707.GA3445@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANJa1ibfN90iNwKQNQjUwQcL2N8DVBF05WXpcew_pbi0_CzRmg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:46:52PM -0800, John de la Garza wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 04:50:58PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 06:43:22PM -0500, John de la Garza wrote:
> > > I assume it is a bad idea to depend on true being 1, right?? I mean, I
> > > should assume that true could be changed to any non 0 value in the future,
> > > right?
> >
> > Why would that matter?? Just always test for "true" and "false" and you
> > will be fine.
> >
>
> What if you need to store the value in a bitmap that needs
> to be 1 or 0 so they can be shifted/anded in?
Then you don't use a boolean if you are worried about it, come on, why
is this even a discussion?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-08 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-30 0:25 ternary vs double exclamation Vinícius Tinti
2014-12-30 0:34 ` Max Filippov
2014-12-30 0:40 ` Vinícius Tinti
2014-12-30 1:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-12-30 1:04 ` Vinícius Tinti
2015-01-03 23:54 ` John de la Garza
2015-01-04 4:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-01-04 23:43 ` John de la Garza
2015-01-05 0:50 ` Greg KH
2015-01-08 4:46 ` John de la Garza
2015-01-08 6:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-01-05 1:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-01-08 4:58 ` John de la Garza
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