Boolean Operators Slighted in C

[Jim Hutchison]

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well now for ||= you can use |= because C defines 0 as false and non-0
as true (Yes, I know that boolean expressions are defined to return 0/1
as defined in K&R if that is still used).

typedef char bool;

#define B_TRUE	((bool)1)
#define B_FALSE	((bool)0)

bool a, b;

		a = B_TRUE;
		b = (x == READY);
		...
		b |= (x == READY);
		b ^= a;

Now this can get you into trouble, because 2 and 1 and 47 are also
"true".  This is o.k. for '|' but not '^'.

You could of course do

		b = (b == 0) ^ (a == 0)

but that looks a bit strained.
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