Dear Timur Tabi, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > _Bool has been introduced very late to any C standard, and you can > > still see this from the ugly, unnatural name. > > It was introduced in C99, which is over 12 years old.
And how old is C? I think the "official" announcment was 1972, so that's more than twice as long without that addition. > > work wit than a CLI. And I've seen more than one case where bugs were > > caused by using "proper bool types" like this: > > > > i = 0; > > j = 0; > > k = 2; > > > > if ((i | j | k) == true) ... > > Ok, but this is just wrong. i, j, and k are not boolean types, so they > should not be compared with 'true' or 'false'. I don't think you'll find > any disagreement with that. You are right. And I wrote that it's a bug. But this is what you can easily get from using boolean types. This is example has not been invented by me. I don't even claim that this was good programming style - all I want to say is that from what I have seen the boolean types are not a panacea; they cause new problems as well. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] A modem is a baudy house. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
