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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Boolean Representation
Date: 1998/09/24
Date: 1998-09-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6udriu$hfi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6udkcj$87j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

In article <6udkcj$87j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  matthew_snyder@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Is it safe to make the assumption that a boolean value of FALSE will always
> be represented as a 0 and a value of TRUE will always be represented as a 1?
> Will an unchecked conversion from a boolean to an integer always yield the
> same results with different compilers?


Whether true or false, this is junky coding, just use
Boolean'Pos (val) to get 0 or 1 in a for sure portable
manner. Remember that to use an unchecked conversion for
Boolean, you would have to use a 1-bit integer, anything
else most definitely gives an implementation defined result.

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-24  0:00 Boolean Representation matthew_snyder
1998-09-24  0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-09-24  0:00   ` matthew_snyder
1998-09-24  0:00     ` dennison
1998-09-24  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-09-25  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-09-25  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-24  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-09-25  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-09-27  0:00       ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-09-28  0:00         ` dewar
1998-09-24  0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-24  0:00   ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-25  0:00     ` dennison
1998-09-25  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-26  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-26  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-27  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-09-27  0:00             ` null pointer representation (was: Boolean Representation) Arthur Evans Jr
1998-09-27  0:00               ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-28  0:00               ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-28  0:00                   ` dewarr
1998-09-30  0:00                     ` Keith Thompson
1998-10-02  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-28  0:00                 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-09-27  0:00           ` Boolean Representation dewarr
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-09-24  0:00 matthew_snyder
1998-09-25  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-25  0:00   ` dewarr
1998-09-25  0:00   ` dewarr
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