On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:27 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > sal_True is -1
>
> What makes you think so (besides possibly today's date, but then the rest of
> your mail looks ok) ?
;-) you know, I have no idea - someone told me that the other day & I
foolishly believed it (I guess).
> > - which is great for unsigned bit fields and all that -
>
> Not really important, but you lost me there.
struct A { int b : 1; }
b can be zero or minus one; the one bit is the sign ;-)
> Actually, converting to bool would have probably avoided any such possible
> trouble, as converting to bool converts any non-zero to true (which has the
> value of 1 with gcc, although I'm not quite sure the spec mandates this).
So the risk is fairly small then; nevertheless it seems more or less
retarded to allow other states lurking around in our booleans :-)
Thanks,
Michael.
--
michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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