From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
Date: 25 Jan 2002 12:39:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1011958751.2635.25.camel@bip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1011958120.1219.2.camel@thanatos>
In-Reply-To: <1011958120.1219.2.camel@thanatos>
le ven 25-01-2002 à 12:28, Thomas Hood a écrit :
> In that case, perhaps it would be more perspicuous to define
> a "bit" type rather than a "bool" type, and to use 0 and 1 as
> its values rather than 'true' and 'false'. (A "bit" type
> would have all the advantages mentioned earlier by Peter Anvin
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101191106124169&w=2 .)
in the hypothetical 'bit type' case:
bit n;
n = 2;
printf("n = %d\n", n);
guess what ? n = 0
Xav
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2002-01-25 11:28 RFC: booleans and the kernel Thomas Hood
2002-01-25 11:39 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
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2002-01-26 3:08 ` Jamie Lokier
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2002-01-24 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2002-01-24 20:23 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-24 20:25 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-24 20:35 ` John Levon
2002-01-24 20:15 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-24 20:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-24 20:39 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-24 21:55 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-24 21:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-24 22:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-24 22:13 ` Robert Love
2002-01-25 21:24 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-24 21:31 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-25 21:43 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-24 21:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-24 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-25 15:07 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-01-25 15:21 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-01-25 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-24 22:19 ` Robert Love
2002-01-25 22:30 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-24 22:36 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-24 22:38 ` Robert Love
2002-01-25 22:44 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-25 3:52 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2002-01-25 20:39 ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-01-25 23:07 ` Rick Stevens
2002-01-25 6:36 ` Kai Henningsen
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2002-01-25 19:02 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-27 1:33 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-26 2:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-01-27 11:18 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-29 6:36 ` Nix N. Nix
2002-01-24 22:33 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-25 22:47 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-24 22:53 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-24 22:59 ` Robert Love
2002-01-25 23:09 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-24 23:27 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-25 6:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-25 8:00 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-25 10:51 ` Xavier Bestel
2002-01-25 16:11 ` Olivier Galibert
2002-01-26 7:22 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-25 7:48 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-25 23:49 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-01-27 11:27 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-25 1:16 ` John Levon
2002-01-25 11:07 ` Helge Hafting
2002-01-24 22:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-01-24 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-26 10:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-01-25 2:00 ` Erik Andersen
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