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Wow, I would never have known about stdbool. I have never seen it used (explicitly), even though it's been around since I was two years old. Thanks for bringing
by microcolonel 9y ago
Wow, I would never have known about stdbool. I have never seen it used (explicitly), even though it's been around since I was two years old. Thanks for bringing this to light! :- )
Nonetheless, bool or _Bool (aside from having implicit saturating arithmetic and assignment) is a one-bit integer type. It seems it mostly just formalizes the (implied, fictional) narrowing conversion involved in testing conditions, which is probably why I've not seen it used explicitly. The macros true and false seem to expand to 1 and 0 respectively.
- int_19h 9y agoThat's because Boolean is a one-bit integer type. Whether you choose to call your 0s and 1s "false" and "true", correspondingly, doesn't change that. Furthermore, from this perspective, a Boolean AND is just integer multiplication; Boolean OR is saturating addition; Boolean XOR is inequality; and Boolean IMP is saturating subtraction.