Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix assignment of boolean variables

[Julia Lawall]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:20:42AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Personally, I would prefer that assignments involving boolean variables
> > use true or false.  It seems more readable.  Potentially better for tools
> > as well.
>
> Then those tools are broken per the C spec.
>
> > But if the community really prefers 0 and 1, then the test can
> > be deleted.
>
> The C language spec, specifies _Bool as an integer type wide enough to
> at least store 0 and 1.
>
> IOW, 0 and 1 are perfectly valid valus to assign to a _Bool.
>
> And fundamentally that has to be so. That's how computers work. 0 is
> false, 1 is true.
>
> The kernel is not the place to try and abstract such stuff, C is our
> portable assembler. We muck with hardware, we'd better know how the heck
> it works.

How about it it were suggested only in files that already use true and
false somewhere?

julia