Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 24 Jan 2002 23:33:40 +0100 |
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le ven 25-01-2002 à 22:24, Timothy Covell a écrit : > 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... > } >
gcc already warns you about such errors.
Xav
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