From ldalton@venus.net Fri Jun 14 15:50:16 1996 Return-Path: Received: from Eng.Sun.COM by pacific.eng.sun.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA15441; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:50:15 -0700 Received: from mercury.Sun.COM by Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-5.3) id PAA24793; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:50:11 -0700 Received: by mercury.Sun.COM (Sun.COM) id PAA19035; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:50:10 -0700 Received: by ncar.ucar.EDU (NCAR Local/ NCAR Central Post Office 03/11/93) id QAA06599; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:50:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from relay7.UU.NET by ncar.ucar.EDU (NCAR Local/ NCAR Central Post Office 03/11/93) id QAA06583; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:49:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: from news.venus.net by relay7.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: news.venus.net [205.243.72.5]) id QQaucx03059; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.venus.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA04123; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:55:03 -0400 To: comp-std-c++@uunet.uu.net From: Larry Dalton Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: RE: How can I tell if my compiler supports the bool type? Organization: Larry Dalton Consulting Lines: 53 Message-ID: <01bb5a4c.83456c80$4048f3cd@dtk> References: <4pnpmp$14oq@ausnews.austin.ibm.com> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: ch1-p0.venus.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News Content-Length: 1503 X-Lines: 53 Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++) Why not: #define FALSE 0 #define TRUE !FALSE That should cover all possibilities... Larry. On Thursday, June 13, 1996, Timur Tabi wrote... > I heard about the new bool type, and I'm looking forward to having it > supported in the compilers I use (Watcom's and IBM's). In the meantime, I'd > like to use the new type in my current compilers, by doing something like: > > typedef int bool; // or maybe I should do #define bool int? > #define false 0 > #define true 1 > > However, if I try this on a "bool-enabled" compiler, I'll probably get some > errors. So what I need is something like: > > #ifndef bool > typedef int bool; > #define false 0 > #define true 1 > #endif > > But I don't think this is going to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? > I want to place these statements into a generic headerfile that will compiler > under both kinds of compilers. > > -- > Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@vnet.ibm.com > Architect, OS/2 Warp realtime MIDI subsystem > http://timur.austin.ibm.com/ (internal IBM only) > http://www.shirenet.com/~crusader/Timur/ (external) > --- > [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles: try just posting with ] > [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] > [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ] > [ Policy: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/policy.html ] > [ Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ] > [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles: try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ] [ Policy: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/austern_mti/std-c++/policy.html ] [ Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ]