Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] CODING_STYLE: add C type rules

[Avi Kivity]

 On 08/19/2010 10:58 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > In C99, bool is a real type.
> Kinda real, I would qualify it more as a pseudo type. It doesn't map to
> any register size or even instruction actions.

Neither do int, short, long, long long, or signed short long float.

> Most processors, at least
> the ones I have programmed, tend to treat it as zero == false,
> everything else == true.

Processors don't have _Bool.

> For structure packing it's ugly.

Use uint*_t for externally visible structures.  use _Bool for internal 
booleans.

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