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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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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
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> As it is, since the _Bool type will seldom generate better code than
> "unsigned char", and will sometimes generate worse code, I'm not quite
> clear why programmers should use it except to communicate with APIs that
> also do so.

Programmers should use _Bool or bool because it's substantially clearer
than using unsigned char to represent a true/false condition.

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