From: Phillip Wood Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:38:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool X-Git-Tag: v2.51.0-rc0~41^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfa405ea36b1d3dd9bb3999a6a5590c15af13fae;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git CodingGuidelines: allow the use of bool We have had a test balloon for C99's bool type since 8277dbe987 (git-compat-util: convert skip_{prefix,suffix}{,_mem} to bool, 2023-12-16). As we've had it over 18 months without any complaints let's declare it a success. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index c1046abfb7..d787bb21ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ For C programs: . since late 2021 with 44ba10d6, we have had variables declared in the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)". + . since late 2023 with 8277dbe987 we have been using the bool type + from . + New C99 features that we cannot use yet: . %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for