Re: page_launder() bug

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Mon, 07 May 2001 10:59:29 +0200


Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> > It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0'
> > integer from the NULL state of a pointer.
>
> But is it really specified in the C "standards" to be exctly zero or one,
> and not zero and non-zero?

!0 is 1. !(anything else) is 0. It is zero and one, not
zero and "non-zero". So a !! construction gives zero if you have
zero, and one if you had anything else. There's no doubt about it.
>
> IMHO, the ?: construct is way more readable and reliable.

Thats your opinion. There are many others. Some don't like the
?: at all, for example. And some like all valid C.

Helge Hafting
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