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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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le ven 25-01-2002 ? 12:28, Thomas Hood a ?crit :

> 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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