On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:20:42AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > Personally, I would prefer that assignments involving boolean variables > use true or false. It seems more readable. Potentially better for tools > as well.
Then those tools are broken per the C spec. > But if the community really prefers 0 and 1, then the test can > be deleted. The C language spec, specifies _Bool as an integer type wide enough to at least store 0 and 1. IOW, 0 and 1 are perfectly valid valus to assign to a _Bool. And fundamentally that has to be so. That's how computers work. 0 is false, 1 is true. The kernel is not the place to try and abstract such stuff, C is our portable assembler. We muck with hardware, we'd better know how the heck it works.
