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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:30:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/68] 0 -> NULL, for arch/arm
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:18:59PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >bool variables are rarely named buf, so no.
> 
> Whatever. Java is good in one point: the ! operator requires a bool.

Language and style advocacy -> that way.  Use of scalar types, including
pointers, in conditional contexts is both 100% legal and, what's more
important, idiomatic C.