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Article #82Re: SGI's C++ compiler and the boolean type
From: Arthur Hagen
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:36
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:36
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In article <4kefm7$oao@ncar.ucar.edu>, jadams@sage.cgd.ucar.edu writes: ... > get all kinds of compiler errors whenever it encounters "bool", "true", > or "false" in my codes. The only workaround I've been able to come up > with is to include the following lines in my header file: > > typedef int bool; > #define true 1 > #define false 0 And some argue that true should be -1, because then bitwise not works: ~(true = -1) == (false = 0) ~(false = 0) == (true = -1) -- Arthur Hagen, Sysadmin, Interactive Design Business: art@design.idg.no / http://www.design.idg.no/ Personal: art@mother.idg.no / http://mother.idg.no/~art/ Flames: billg@microsoft.com / http://127.0.0.1/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ns.ftns.no!kether!art From: art@kether.follonett.no (Arthur Hagen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: SGI's C++ compiler and the boolean type Date: 10 Apr 1996 11:36:31 GMT Organization: Interactive Design Message-ID: <4kg6fv$h7k@nic.ftns.no> References: <4kefm7$oao@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: art@mother.idg.no NNTP-Posting-Host: kether.follonett.no