Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] bug.h: Prevent double evaulation of inBUILD_BUG_ON

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:15PM -0600, Daniel Santos wrote:
> Ah yes. I did notice that at one point, but I think it slipped
> my mind. Also, the kernel has introduced me to the usage of the
> !! construct, of which I'm well versed in its affects in various
> situations and how gcc's optimizer ends up treating its usage, so
> probably another reason I didn't change it immediately. But it's
> basically shorthand for the expression (condition ? 1 : 0), correct?

I don't think so: "!!" is simply a double negation which turns the
whatever wild construct you have into either 0 or 1, depending on what
it evaluates to.

But I don't know what the standard says so you'll have to check :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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