Re: [patch 1/1] consolidate TRUE and FALSE

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> of course.  but that it's not used in core code implies this opinion is
>> widely shared.
>
>[...]  To me it is a simple consequence of there not 
>being a boolean type in the kernel so you cannot use it in the core code.  

	typedef bool int;

And then happily use if(EXPR) and if(!EXPR) instead of if(EXPR == TRUE) or 
if(EXPR == FALSE).  :-)

But typedeffing it to int (or unsigned char, if someone likes that 
for space optimization) does not "catch overflows" (see another lkml 
mail from me) as _Bool would.


Jan Engelhardt
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