From bfa405ea36b1d3dd9bb3999a6a5590c15af13fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Wood Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:38:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.2