Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] CODING_STYLE: add C type rules

[Jes Sorensen]

On 08/18/10 18:46, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/17/2010 10:15 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>> I strongly disagree.  The use of "bool", even if you ignore stdbool.h
>>> and do "typedef int bool", is valuable documentation in the code.
>> I guess we have to agree to disagree then. IMHO it just masks the real
>> type and you end up with cases where people pass it back and forth
>> randomly.
> 
> In C99, bool is a real type.

Kinda real, I would qualify it more as a pseudo type. It doesn't map to
any register size or even instruction actions. Most processors, at least
the ones I have programmed, tend to treat it as zero == false,
everything else == true. For structure packing it's ugly.

Jes