Re: [Jack-Devel] [LAU] jack2 turned verbose

Fons Adriaensen <[hidden]> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:09:24PM +0300, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>
>> Fons Adriaensen <[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> > What this tells me is that one should test booleans against
>> > boolean constants, and ints against int constants, and *not*
>> > mix them up. Which I guess the libdbus code is doing.
>  
>> This guesswork fails. libdbus doesnt do this if only because it uses
>> dbus_bool_t and not C99 nor C++ bool.
>
> It some software implements its own boolean type, and then in
> some cases decides that a given value of that type is neither
> true nor false - as you wrote in a previous post - then that
> is a bug. The essence of a boolean is that it always either
> true or false. My suspicion is based on what you wrote, nothing
> else.

This is false. Any ABI needs to define types of fixed size. Neither C99
nor C++ fix the size of booleans. And still, this is irrelevant to the
compiler issue itself.

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