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Ar Gwe, 2006-08-04 am 10:03 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jes Sorensen: > alignments. Not to mention that on some architectures, accessing a u1 > is a lot slower than accessing an int. If a developer really wants to > use the smaller type he/she should do so explicitly being aware of the > impact. Which is just fine. Nobody at the moment is using the bool type because we don't have one. Nor is a C bool necessarily u1. > The kernel is written in C, not C++ or Jave or some other broken > language and C doesn't have 'bool'. Oh yes it does, as of C99 via stdbool.h. The only reason its not always "bool" is compatibility considerations. Welcome to the 21st century. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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