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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:43:48 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Em Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:28:46AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin escreveu:
> 
>>Noone is actually meant to use _Bool, except perhaps in header files.
>>
>>#include <stdbool.h>
>   
> perhaps we don't need another header, adding this instead to types.h.
> 


That's fine for the Linux kernel, of course, but the above was mostly for
reference -- it's the *intended* way to use these keywords (you have to
explicitly import these macros into the namespace, but using the
C++-compatible tokens is definitely the intention.)

	-hpa


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