[U-Boot] [PATCH] Introduce a global bool type
Timur Tabi
b04825 at freescale.com
Tue Jan 8 20:09:24 CET 2013
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> You are right. And I wrote that it's a bug. But this is what you can
> easily get from using boolean types. This is example has not been
> invented by me. I don't even claim that this was good programming
> style - all I want to say is that from what I have seen the boolean
> types are not a panacea; they cause new problems as well.
I don't disagree with any of that, but I don't see what your point is.
Every time you use a new feature, there are also new ways to use it
incorrectly. By your logic, we should use no new features of the C
language that were invented in the past 20 years.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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