Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:31:34 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel |
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Timothy Covell wrote:
> On Thursday 24 January 2002 14:39, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > > The compiler _will_ turn if(a==0) into a test of a with itself rather than > > a comparison against a constant. Since PDP days, no doubt. > > I thought that the whole point of booleans was to stop silly errors > like > > if ( x = 1 ) > { > printf ("\nX is true\n"); > } > else > { > # we never get here... > }
And how does s/1/true/ fix that?
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