Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:17:52 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 4) |
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>> > +#define false false >> > +#define true true >> >> Can someone please tell me what advantage 'define true true' is going to >> bring, besides than being able to '#ifdef true'? > > It > > (a) makes type information available to the C compiler, where a plain #define > does not.
Do you mean preprocessor? C already knows about true from the enum.
> (b) handles all '#ifndef true' statements properly
Holy *, is there _really_ code in linux/ that depends on true being [not] defined?
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