Re: Conversion to generic boolean

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Nicholas Miell wrote:

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:17 +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Just would like to ask if you want patches for:
Total NACK to any of this boolean ididocy.  I very much hope you didn't
get the impression you actually have a chance to get this merged.

* (Most importent, may introduce bugs if left alone)
Fixing boolean checking, ex:
if (bool == FALSE)
to
if (!bool)
this one of course makes sense, but please do it without introducing
any boolean type.  Getting rid of all the TRUE/FALSE defines and converting
all scsi drivers to classic C integer as boolean semantics would be
very welcome janitorial work.
I don't get it. You object to the 'idiocy' (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/27/281), but find the x==FALSE -> !x a good thing?


That is error-prone. Not "==FALSE" but what happens if x is (for some reason) not 1 and then "if (x==TRUE)".

If you're using _Bool, that isn't possible. (Except at the boundaries
where you have to validate untrusted data -- and the compiler makes that
more difficult, because it "knows" that a _Bool can only be 0 or 1 and
therefore your check to see if it's not 0 or 1 can "safely" be
eliminated.)
Yes, true. But there is no _Bool's in the kernel (linus-git), only one in script/.

Richard Knutsson
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