BOOL vs. bool [was Re: svn commit: samba r25126]
Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
metze at samba.org
Fri Sep 14 05:15:10 GMT 2007
> ok. How does this sound for README.Coding then:
>
> Primitive Data Types
> --------------------
>
> Samba has large amounts of historical code which makes use of data
> types commonly supported by the C99 standard. However, at the time
> such types as boolean and exact width integers did not exist and
> Samba developers were forced to provide their own. Now that these
> types are guaranteed to be available either as part of the compiler
> C99 support or from lib/replace/, new code should adhere to the
> following conventions:
>
> * Booleans are of type "bool" (not BOOL)
> * Boolean values are "true" and "false" (not True or False)
> * Exact width integers are of type [u]int[8|16|32|64]_t
thanks! that will make the merge work between samba3 and 4 much, much
easier:-)
metze
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