From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:33:03 -0700
> Why not for variables? It makes a lot of sense of nothing else to > avoid the confusion that invariably happens when someone decides to > introduce the value 2 or -1 to an existing variable (and yes, thus > has happened a number of times.) > > Not to mention they take a single byte rather than four for an int if stored > in memory. No objection :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/