On 21 January 2007 14:38, Christopher Layne wrote: > I notice in some places, there are double-negates, like: > > me->read_ready |= ret || !!(events & (FD_READ | FD_ACCEPT | FD_CLOSE)); > > What's the rationale for these? To enforce either a 0 or 1, to be directly > in line with boolean, rather than a zero or non-zero result?
It's a standard C idiom for that, yeh, it normalizes zero/non-zero into 0/1. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/