Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Conversion to generic boolean | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:48:20 +0100 |
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Ar Maw, 2006-08-29 am 12:41 +0100, ysgrifennodd Christoph Hellwig: > gcc lets you happily assign any integer value to bool/_Bool, so unless > you write sparse support for actually checking things there's not the > slightest advantage in value range checking.
Not the case: gcc allows you to assign 0 or 1 to an _Bool type object. When you are "assigning" integers you are merely seeing implicit casting before the assignment.
Try int a = 4; _Bool b = a; int c = b; printf("%d\n", c);
Alan
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