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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Why _Bool was not defined as enum in C99?
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> thiago.adams@gmail.com writes:
>
>> Does anyone knows if an enumeration was considered to implement _Bool?
>
> It wouldn't make sense to implement _Bool as an enumeration,
> because by there aren't any enumeration constants that go
> with it.

Surely if _Bool were an enumerated type, false and true would be
enumeration constants.

My favorite way to define a boolean type if I can't assume C99 is

    typedef enum { false, true } bool;

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