Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 6)

[Nicholas Miell]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 21:55 +0200, ricknu-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Citerar Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > If _Bool does end up in the user-kernel ABI, be advised that validating
> > them will be tricky ("b == true || b == false" or "!!b" won't work), and
> 
> Why would !!b not work?
> I don't think it should end up in the ABI (at least, not yet). Just asking
> because I'm curious. :)
> 

The compiler knows that "b = !!b;" is a no-op.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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