It makes a difference because m_RefreshPending was initialized to 0 by the constructor, but the three bytes behind it were not, so the first cmpxchg could fail. Plus of course if someone decided to add another bool or a char array or whatever at the end, that would get overwritten.
On 2015-11-03 00:21, Timo Kreuzer wrote: > In fact in this case it wouldn't make a difference, since the bool would > be converted to a LONG. But using TRUE/FALSE seems to be appropriate here. > > Am 22.10.2015 um 19:37 schrieb gedmur...@svn.reactos.org: >> Author: gedmurphy >> Date: Thu Oct 22 17:37:51 2015 >> New Revision: 69650 >> >> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=69650&view=rev >> Log: >> The c++ bool is 1 byte, not 4. Thanks Thomas >> >> Modified: >> trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.cpp >> trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.h >> >> Modified: trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.cpp >> URL: >> http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.cpp?rev=69650&r1=69649&r2=69650&view=diff >> ============================================================================== >> --- trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.cpp [iso-8859-1] >> (original) >> +++ trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.cpp [iso-8859-1] >> Thu Oct 22 17:37:51 2015 >> @@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ >> // we set a timer to run in 500ms, which should leave >> enough time for all >> // the messages to come through. Wrap so we don't set >> multiple timers >> // >> - if (InterlockedCompareExchange((LONG >> *)&This->m_RefreshPending, true, false) == false) >> + if (InterlockedCompareExchange((LONG >> *)&This->m_RefreshPending, TRUE, FALSE) == FALSE) >> { >> SetTimer(hwnd, REFRESH_TIMER, 500, NULL); >> } >> @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ >> KillTimer(hwnd, REFRESH_TIMER); >> >> // Allow more change notifications >> - InterlockedExchange((LONG *)&This->m_RefreshPending, false); >> + InterlockedExchange((LONG *)&This->m_RefreshPending, FALSE); >> } >> break; >> } >> >> Modified: trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.h >> URL: >> http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.h?rev=69650&r1=69649&r2=69650&view=diff >> ============================================================================== >> --- trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.h [iso-8859-1] >> (original) >> +++ trunk/reactos/dll/win32/devmgr/devmgmt/MainWindow.h [iso-8859-1] >> Thu Oct 22 17:37:51 2015 >> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ >> HMENU m_hMenu; >> HMENU m_hActionMenu; >> int m_CmdShow; >> - bool m_RefreshPending; >> + BOOL m_RefreshPending; >> >> public: >> CDeviceManager(void); >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev