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> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:36:15 -0500
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > 
> >  #define bool _Bool
> > 
> > which, I think is perfectly okay.  What doesn't exist here? _Bool?
> > It's built into GCC, AFAIK.
> 
> Not for K&R/C89/C90/C95.  _Bool does not exist for these.  The
> declaration "_Bool boolthing;" should result in an undefined
> error.

If you want this, you should compile with __STRICT_ANSI__, and then
_Bool should trigger an error.  At least, our headers won't use _Bool
in that case.

> If the above #define has occurred, that error will result
> from the innocuous "bool boolthing;", and attempts to redefine
> bool with "#define bool int" will also result in confusing error
> messages.

It doesn't occur under strict ANSI compilation, which is all the user
should hope for.

> We may be approaching this from different viewpoints. Mine is that
> code should adhere to ISO standards, and that special efforts are
> needed to deviate from that.

That is indeed different from the whole library's philosophy, which
is the other way around: unless you request strict ANSI, you don't
get it.

> I consider GNU standards to be such
> a deviation, and so run gcc with -ansi -pedantic by default.

Then the suggested stdbool.h should be fine for you.

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