//type bool define
#define BOOL int
#define bool int
#define FALSE 0
#define false 0
#define TRUE 1
#define true 1
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I've been programming for a little while in c++ and directx and I started noticing some stuff I never noticed before. My question is if the bool type is really a macro. It could be defined somewhere in the windows macros like so:
The "bool" type is a part of both C and C++. The "true" and "false" types are too. The byte size of bool and the values of true and false aren''t specified. However, BOOL, TRUE, and FALSE are part of the Win32 API (not C or C++). BOOL is a typedef for int, TRUE is 1, and FALSE is 0.
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Types in all capital letters such as "BOOL" are defines that Microsoft has provided. BOOL is a typedef int, as you suggest. However, 'bool' is an actual C++ datatype such as 'int' and is a part of the language, as is 'true' and 'false' (but not 'TRUE' and 'FALSE' which are defines for 1 and 0, respectively)
Typedefs such as BOOL and TRUE and FALSE are holdovers from C. In C++, you can use bool, true, and false if you prefer but I see lots of C++ programmers using BOOL just because it is consistent with what you have to use when writing plain C.
Edit: Null and Void beat me to it. To my understanding, bool is not a part of ANSI C, however, the standard could have changed from when I first had a C programming class (about 6 years ago).
Edited by - jaxson on November 4, 2001 7:03:12 PM
Typedefs such as BOOL and TRUE and FALSE are holdovers from C. In C++, you can use bool, true, and false if you prefer but I see lots of C++ programmers using BOOL just because it is consistent with what you have to use when writing plain C.
Edit: Null and Void beat me to it. To my understanding, bool is not a part of ANSI C, however, the standard could have changed from when I first had a C programming class (about 6 years ago).
Edited by - jaxson on November 4, 2001 7:03:12 PM
C++ Draft, 3.9.1.6:
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6 Values of type bool are either true or false.40) [Note: there are no signed, unsigned, short, or
long bool types or values. ] As described below, bool values behave as integral types. Values of type
bool participate in integral promotions (4.5).
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quote:Original post by jaxson
To my understanding, bool is not a part of ANSI C, however, the standard could have changed from when I first had a C programming class (about 6 years ago).
It was added in 1999 (C99 Standard)
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quote:Original post by jaxson
Edit: Null and Void beat me to it. To my understanding, bool is not a part of ANSI C, however, the standard could have changed from when I first had a C programming class (about 6 years ago).
Edited by - jaxson on November 4, 2001 7:03:12 PM
Actuallly, you''re right, bool was never implemented in good old ANSI C compliant compilers. You had to typedef them or #define them. I remember when I first switched from Pascal to C, I tried to define a boolean and the compiler would just blast me with errors until I read that I had to define them myself...
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quote:Original post by CyberdrekOriginal post by jaxson
Edit: Null and Void beat me to it. To my understanding, bool is not a part of ANSI C, however, the standard could have changed from when I first had a C programming class (about 6 years ago).
Edited by - jaxson on November 4, 2001 7:03:12 PM
Actuallly, you''re right, bool was never implemented in good old ANSI C compliant compilers back in the Old days. You had to typedef them or #define them. I remember when I first switched from Pascal to C, I tried to define a boolean and the compiler would just blast me with errors until I read that I had to define them myself…
However, my good friend Null And Void is correct, It was added in 1999, I stand corrected…
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The thing is that most leading compilers still don''t implement the C99 standard, which kinda sucks.
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