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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:00:42 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
CC: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>
>>>by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to
>>>types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over
>>>100 instances of those same macros being *defined* throughout the
>>>source tree. you're not going to be deleting the hundreds and
>>>hundreds of *uses* of TRUE and FALSE (not yet, anyway) but, at the
>>>very least, by adding two lines to types.h, you can delete all
>>>those redundant *definitions* and make sure that nothing breaks.
>>>(it shouldn't, of course, but it's always nice to be sure.)
>>
>>Doesn't seem very worthwhile, and it legitimises this definition
>>we're trying to get rid of.
> 
> 
> hmmmmmmmm ... apparently, you totally missed my use of the important
> word "temporarily":

No, I didn't.

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