Re: [PATCH 1/2] include/linux: Defining bool, false and true

Citerar "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>:

> [email protected] wrote:
> > This patch defines:
> > * a generic boolean-type, named "bool"
> > * aliases to 0 and 1, named "false" and "true"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[email protected]>
> 
> Shouldn't this simply use _Bool?

Well, it is (now) just a typedef of it. :)

But I find it better, both because it is more similar to the common types:
short, lowlettered words. But also because most editors with highlightning
recognize "bool", but not "_Bool", as a type (as I found it).

> 	-hpa

/Richard Knutsson

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