[PATCH 1/3] CodingGuildlines: allow the use of bool
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
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- Jul 14, 2025, 13:27 UTC
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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
We have had a test balloon for C99's bool type since 8277dbe987 (git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool, 2023-12-16). As we've had it over 18 months without any complaints let's declare it a success.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 6350949f2ef..528b42d1dd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ For C programs: . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)". + . since late 2023 with 8277dbe987 we have been using the bool type + from <stdbool.h>. + New C99 features that we cannot use yet: . %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for
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