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Re: warning when bool parameter in function prototype


On Jan 16, 2003, Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:

> On 16-Jan-2003, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> wrote:
>> For consistency please use int in both places.
>> SImply never use bool as function arguemnt.

> It would be nicer to have

> 	typedef int bool_param;

> and to use `bool_param' instead of using `int' directly.
> That way, you get the documentation value of knowing that
> the parameter represents a boolean rather than an integer.

And then, when we switch to C89, we can change a single typedef and
all the places where we wanted bool but had to use int due to lack of
prototypes would be fixed.

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