Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 01:13:21 EST


On 25 Jan 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> le sam 26-01-2002 à 00:09, Timothy Covell a écrit :
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > char x;
> >
> > if ( x )
> > {
> > printf ("\n We got here\n");
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > // We never get here
> > printf ("\n We never got here\n");
> > }
> > exit (0);
> > }
> > covell@xxxxxx ~>gcc -Wall foo.c
> > foo.c: In function `main':
> > foo.c:17: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit'
>
> I'm lost. What do you want to prove ? (Al Viro would say you just want
> to show you don't know C ;)
> And why do you think you never get there ?

I suspect that our, ah, Java-loving friend doesn't realize that '\0' is
a legitimate value of type char...

BTW, he's got a funny compiler - I would expect at least a warning about
use of uninitialized variable.

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