In article <39884355.DCB5F320@buckosoft.com> , Dick Balaska 
<dic### [at] buckosoftcom>  wrote:

>>   Nope. In C a true value is 1 (for example the result of the sentence a==b
>> is 1 if a is equal to b, else 0). When testing a conditional, any value
>> other than 0 is considered true, and 0 is considered false.
>
> Your definition is wrong, but your example is correct. :)
>
> False is 0.  True is not false.
> 1 is a true value, as is 2, as is -1.
>
> I have seen #define TRUE 1
> I have also seen #define TRUE ~FALSE

In C++ he would be nearly right :-)   Except that there is no definition of
the internal representation of the type "bool" which is left to the
compiler/platform (i.e. some RISC platforms like PowerPC have several
condition-code registers and instructions to work with them).

Only conversions from and to "bool" are defined in C++, and in case of the
conversion of bool to anything, true will be "1".


     Thorsten


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