On 09/01/16 17:51, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 00:47 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 09/01/16 13:11, Joe Perches wrote: >>> >>> Assigning an int to a bitfield:1 can lose precision. >>> Change the caller argument uses from 1/0 to true/false. >> Hello Joe, > > Hi Bart. > >> Can you clarify how assigning 0 or 1 to a one-bit bitfield can cause a >> loss of precision? > > There are no existing defects. > > Using 1/0 is not a loss of precision, it's just > changing to use bool avoids potential errors and > promotes consistency. > > Other uses of this function already use true/false.
Hello Joe, In the patch description you refer to loss of precision. However, your patch does not address any loss of precision issues. So I think that the patch description is misleading and could be made more clear. Bart.
