Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 14:43:48 EST


Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Em Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:28:46AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin escreveu:
>
>>Noone is actually meant to use _Bool, except perhaps in header files.
>>
>>#include <stdbool.h>
>
> perhaps we don't need another header, adding this instead to types.h.
>

That's fine for the Linux kernel, of course, but the above was mostly for
reference -- it's the *intended* way to use these keywords (you have to
explicitly import these macros into the namespace, but using the
C++-compatible tokens is definitely the intention.)

        -hpa

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