Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] af_unix: remove NULL assignment on static

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Tue Oct 07 2014 - 16:26:23 EST


On Di, 2014-10-07 at 16:18 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 22:16:36 +0200
>
> > static values are automatically initialized to NULL
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Isn't there some implementation room given to compilers
> as to the representation of true and false?

No, the standard requests implementations to implement false as 0 and
true as 1.

In case of assignments e.g. INT_MAX to _Bool (=bool) it will implicitly
converted to 1, so one can omit the often used !! with booleans.

Bye,
Hannes



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