Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: page_launder() bug | Date | 7 May 2001 06:53:44 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105070823060.24073-100000@svea.tellus> By author: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sun, 6 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0' > > integer from the NULL state of a pointer. > > But is it really specified in the C "standards" to be exctly zero or one, > and not zero and non-zero? >
Yes it is.
> > IMHO, the ?: construct is way more readable and reliable. >
In C99 one can write (bool)foo which is more readable than either, especially since that is really what one is trying to do.
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