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darnaut on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Security vulnerability in MySQL ubuntu

> This is why real C programmers use int as their bool type. :)

It has the same problem if a wider type (e.g. long) is assigned to it. Use _Bool instead.

tedunangst on June 11, 2012 [–]

I was at first tempted to complain about useless pedantry, but you're right. Even if some of us still like to party like it's 1989. I should have said the real lesson is don't reimplement standard C types, poorly.

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