On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Steve Boleware wrote: > > I am including stdio.h > > if it's a "keyword" like you said wouldn't it be part of the language? > > how would i typedef it? > > > > what would i typedef it as? > > > > not trying to seem rude if i do i just don't understand > > if you have included stdio.h and there is no bool type defined, > you are probably coding in windows... in that case you would use > something like the following:
That's odd.. If I include stdio.h, there is no bool type defined... And I'm not coding in Windows, but in Linux! > #if defined(WIN32) > //needed in Win32. For some reason it is not defined by default -SB > typedef unsigned char bool; > #endif That "some reason it is not defined by default" would be because there is no "bool" type in C, or in any of the standard C header files. (As a side note, there are some header files that define a bool type, but none of the standard header files should. That would cause all sorts of problems with name collisions since "bool" is such a common name people use). I believe the new spec for C has a boolean type called _Bool or something like that. But the old spec did not define any boolean type, and it's still not "bool". Now are you sure you're talking C and not C++? If you're compiling your code with g++ (or any C++ compiler for that matter), there will be a bool data type defined. But if you're compiling with a C compiler, there will not be. Dennis
