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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm2] Generic boolean
Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>Hi,
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>>There has been concern about adding other values then 0 and 1. There has been
>>ideas to do something like:
>>bool b = i & 1 : 0;
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>I think you miseed a '?'
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Yes, thanks...

>bool b = (i & 1) ? : 0;
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...but I meant: bool b = i ? 1 : 0;

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>>/*or*/
>>bool b = !!i;
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>>but all that is needed is just a casting:
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>>bool b = (bool) i;
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>No casting needed (in fact, casting is more evil than !!). If bool is a
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Please inform me why casting is evil (other then risking losing data, by
cutting the value). But also, _Bool-casting is after all a bit special
since it does not seem (at least by me) to be able to get a wrong value
(giving it a value other then 0 but reciving 0).

>bool, then the compiler will (hopefully) ensure that b will only get
>values valid for bools.
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No, not really. Because _Bool is a byte and not a bit, you can put in a
value other then 0 or 1 if you cast the pointer (if you insert 256 it
becomes 0). But after all, there should not be any:
if (b == true)
in the code anyway, so it should be ok.

>Jan Engelhardt
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/Richard Knutsson
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