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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:52:53 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> There is no enum involved.
> 
>>> There should be.  It makes more information available to the C 
>>> compiler, and it makes useful symbols available to the debugger.
> 
>> _Bool is a native C type; it has all the information the C compiler 
>> needs.
> 
> "#define true 1" however does not.
> 

I guess that's fair, although when you put it into a type _Bool they're 
going to devolve to pure constants.

	-hpa
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