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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about int result of relational operator
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Date: 6 Nov 88 04:22:38 GMT
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In article <7482@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
: Also be very wary of functions whose result is often treated as
: Boolean, but is really integer or pointer so that "true" returns
: as anything nonzero.  "Cast" these into Boolean if needed by
:       !!fcn(...)

Clearer, and likely to generate better code, is:

	fcn != 0

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Bill
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