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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: ricknu-0@student.ltu.se
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Shorty Porty <getshorty_@hotmail.com>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	larsbj@gullik.net, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lars Noschinski <cebewee@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:20:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CFC59A.5050609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154466739.44cfc3b34a222@portal.student.luth.se>

ricknu-0@student.ltu.se wrote:
> Citerar "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>:
> 
>> ricknu-0@student.ltu.se wrote:
>>> This patch defines:
>>> * a generic boolean-type, named "bool"
>>> * aliases to 0 and 1, named "false" and "true"
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
>> Shouldn't this simply use _Bool?
> 
> Well, it is (now) just a typedef of it. :)
> 
> But I find it better, both because it is more similar to the common types:
> short, lowlettered words. But also because most editors with highlightning
> recognize "bool", but not "_Bool", as a type (as I found it).
> 

<stdbool.h> should include:

typedef _Bool bool;
#define true  1
#define false 0

There is no enum involved.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-29 12:19 [PATCH 0/2] A generic boolean-type ricknu-0
2006-07-29 12:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true ricknu-0
2006-08-01 19:19   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 21:12     ` ricknu-0
2006-08-01 21:20       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-01 21:31         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-01 21:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 21:48             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-01 21:52               ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 21:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-01 21:41       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 21:47         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-29 12:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivers: Removes colliding boolean definitions ricknu-0

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