Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:51:15 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 6) |
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Nicholas wrote: > If _Bool does end up in the user-kernel ABI
I'd be inclined to not put a _Bool in that ABI. I'd stick with the scalar ints and such we have now.
The benefits of compile type checking are weaker across that ABI, and the demands of compatibility much higher than they are for kernel internals.
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