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Re: tail -c fails (coreutils 5.92)
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Vincent Lefevre |
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Re: tail -c fails (coreutils 5.92) |
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Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:44:51 +0100 |
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On 2005-11-01 15:15:43 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Also, the following code (considering a boolean as an integer value)
> > is at least dirty if not buggy:
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> It's not a bug. This sounds like a mere style issue. C has
> well-defined behavior here, and that code operates correctly as far as
> I can see.
Yes, I wasn't sure. But it makes things a bit weird with gdb, which
displays 'true' and 'false' instead of '1' and '0'.
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