Time to standardize "true" and "false"
Tim Olson
tim at cayman.amd.com
Fri Sep 29 04:18:50 AEST 1989
In article <8862 at etana.tut.fi> pl at etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes:
| From article <12070 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, by wen-king at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (King Su):
| >
| > #define bool(a) (!!(a))
| >
| > Then just use bool(X) whenever you wanted to use (bool)X.
| >
|
| Then suddenly just behind the corner cames C-compiler from
| ACME-corporation and realizes '!!a' -> negation of negation is
| same as original -> we can optimize it away.
|
| Nice, isn't it. And too real too.
And wrong, too. Do you know of a compiler that does this in the
general case?
-- Tim Olson
Advanced Micro Devices
(tim at amd.com)
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