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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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At 17:42 24/01/02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>A small issue...
>
>C99 introduced _Bool as a builtin type.  The gcc patch for it went into
>cvs around Dec 2000.  Any objections to propagating this type and usage
>of 'true' and 'false' around the kernel?
>
>Where variables are truly boolean use of a bool type makes the
>intentions of the code more clear.  And it also gives the compiler a
>slightly better chance to optimize code [I suspect].
>
>Actually I prefer 'bool' to '_Bool', if this becomes a kernel standard.

I would be in favour of this as it does make code more readable. I use it 
in ntfs tng quite a bit (but I just typedef a BOOL type myself).

If it is added, then _please_ don't use '_Bool', that's just sick... 
'bool', heck even 'BOOL' would be better than that!

Best regards,

Anton


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