On February 12, 2016 5:40:29 PM GMT+01:00, Yury Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>Andres Freund wrote:
>> Unless I am missing something major, that doesn't seem to
>> achieve all that much. A cast to a char based bool wouldn't
>> normalize this to 0 or 1. So you're still not guaranteed to be
>> able to do somebool == anotherbool when either are set based on
>> such a macro.
>>
>
>In C99 cast to bool return 0 or 1 only.
Don't you say. That's why I brought all this up.
> In older compilers nothing
>changes
>(Now the code is designed to "char == char").
>I think this is a good option. But of course to write bool and use char
>
>strange.
Did you read what I wrote? That's not correct for char booleans, because the can have different bits set.
Andres
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