On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> A small issue...
>
> C99 introduced _Bool as a builtin type. The gcc patch for it went into
> cvs around Dec 2000. Any objections to propagating this type and usage
> of 'true' and 'false' around the kernel?
Ugh, no. C doesn't need booleans, neither do Perl or Python. This is a
sickness imported from _recent_ C++ by way of Java by way of Pascal. This
just complicates things.
> Where variables are truly boolean use of a bool type makes the
> intentions of the code more clear. And it also gives the compiler a
> slightly better chance to optimize code [I suspect].
Unlikely. The compiler can already figure this sort of thing out from
context.
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