ternary vs double exclamation

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 06:43:22PM -0500, John de la Garza wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 11:20:29PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:54:00 -0500, John de la Garza said:
> > 
> > > It should not be assumed that true will always be 1 as defined in
> > > include/linux/stddef.h, right?
> > 
> > No, I mean use an actual 'bool' type rather than 'int'.  Consider this from
> > kernel/softirq.c:
> 
> yes, bool has two possible values true and false
> 
> from include/linux/stddef.h:
> enum {
> 	        false   = 0,
> 		true	= 1
> };
> 
> 
> I assume it is a bad idea to depend on true being 1, right?  I mean, I
> should assume that true could be changed to any non 0 value in the future,
> right?

Why would that matter?  Just always test for "true" and "false" and you
will be fine.

greg k-h