On 08/18/10 10:35, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/17/2010 08:39 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: >>> I'd strongly discourage the use of bool in any code. >> >> I strongly disagree. The use of "bool", even if you ignore stdbool.h >> and do "typedef int bool", is valuable documentation in the code. > > I think "bool" is fine, but it should be either stdbool.h or a typedef. > Using stdbool.h only when it is present is going to introduce bugs the > day someone relies on the magic properties of the C99 bool.
This is exactly the problem, it doesn't buy us anything, except for #ifdef chaos. We're better off sticking to int, then we know what we have and avoiding this mess. Jes
