Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >
> > > by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to
> > > types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over
> > > 100 instances of those same macros being *defined* throughout the
> > > source tree. you're not going to be deleting the hundreds and
> > > hundreds of *uses* of TRUE and FALSE (not yet, anyway) but, at the
> > > very least, by adding two lines to types.h, you can delete all
> > > those redundant *definitions* and make sure that nothing breaks.
> > > (it shouldn't, of course, but it's always nice to be sure.)
> >
> > Doesn't seem very worthwhile, and it legitimises this definition
> > we're trying to get rid of.
>
>
> hmmmmmmmm ... apparently, you totally missed my use of the important
> word "temporarily":

No, I didn't.

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/