Re: Create a logical array of 0

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Sep-2004, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

| According to Josep Monés i Teixidor <address@hidden> (on 09/05/04):
| > No, The standard says that bool is required to convert to integral types
| > using 1 for true and false to 0, but sizeof(bool) doesn't need to be 1,
| > the standard says it's "implementation-defined".
| 
| So this is what I meant about autoconf options and conversions, since we
| don't know the size of bool....

But where do we actually care what the size is?  I'm not proposing
that we use bool as a size declaration for fwrite the way we use int8
or int32.  I'm only proposing it as an option for returning values
from fread as "logical".

jwe



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