GCC Steering Committee decision on ISO C conversion

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Fri Jun 14 08:15:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:59:14PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > ... But there's a lot more we can do for ISO C90
> > conversion.
> 
> > E.g. as you suggested above, you can convert to the new function
> > definitions and use bool parameters.  
> 
> IIRC bool wasn't added until C95; I certainly can't find any mention of it 
> in c90.

That's not relevant here, since if stdbool.h is not provided and ISO C99
compiler is not used, bool will be define:
typedef char _Bool;
# define bool _Bool
so it is all about whether we can use char parameters.

	Jakub



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