Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] i386: clean up user_mode macros | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:28:43 +0900 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: > Ask a hundred random C programmers what "!!x" means, versus what "x != 0" > means, and time their replies.
I've always thought of "!!" as the "canonicalize boolean" operator...
Vaguely ugly, but I think it's actually _more clear_ than != 0 in contexts where the value is already "boolean" in the C zero or not-zero sense, but you want a "proper" boolean (0 or 1) for some reason.
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