Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style
Message-ID: <601@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 17:09:25 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <20126@think.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Summary: How about TRUE <--> 1U

In article <20126@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
< I can think of one reason, however, why 1 should be used as a standard
< truth value.  Single-bit fields in structures are generally used as
< flags, and it would be nice to be able to say flag = isXXX(...) rather
< than flag = (isXXX(...) != FALSE).

Techinically, shouldn't TRUE be `1U' if it goes into a bitfield?
I'm not sure but would like to hear some thoughts on this...

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