Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

Timothy Covell (timothy.covell@ashavan.org)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:24:39 -0600

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...
}

-- 
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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