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Re: [PATCH] test-stdbool: skip test that fails with Solaris CC


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-stdbool: skip test that fails with Solaris CC
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:01:25 +0200
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Eric Blake wrote:
> +     test-stdbool: skip test that fails with Solaris CC

Seems reasonable to me too. I've never seen any program casting floating-point
values to 'bool'. So that's not a feature people rely on.

Just a doc tweak:


2010-04-18  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi: More precise wording.

--- doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi.orig Sun Apr 18 21:57:15 2010
+++ doc/posix-headers/stdbool.texi      Sun Apr 18 21:56:44 2010
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@
 zero value or the null pointer, as they should.  Such casts should only
 be used if the casted value is known to be equal to 0 or 1.
 @item
-You cannot assume that casting floating point to @samp{bool} will
+You cannot assume that casting a floating point literal to @samp{bool} will
 result in a constant expression.
 @end itemize




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