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  • CPalliniC CPallini

    But it hasn't 8 hexadecimal digits. I.e. I was kidding about your binary numbers prefixed like hexadecimal ones. :)

    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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    you're right, i fixed it.

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    • CPalliniC CPallini

      Maybe both my local help and my windef.h file are wrong?

      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
      This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

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      Rajesh R Subramanian
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      May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change. :laugh:

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        May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change. :laugh:

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        Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

        May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change

        come on, have you ever worked under linux ? Microsoft IS NOT the standard, even if 85% of the PCs worldwide are windows based... :doh:

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        • T toxcct

          what ????? doesn't a Byte having 8 bits ?

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          Cedric Moonen
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          toxcct wrote:

          doesn't a Byte having 8 bits

          Yes, so it is coded 0x00 to 0xFF (hexa representation) or 0b00000000 to 0b11111111 (binary representation).

          Cédric Moonen Software developer
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            Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

            May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change

            come on, have you ever worked under linux ? Microsoft IS NOT the standard, even if 85% of the PCs worldwide are windows based... :doh:

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            toxcct wrote:

            come on, have you ever worked under linux ?

            Yes, why?

            toxcct wrote:

            Microsoft IS NOT the standard, even if 85% of the PCs worldwide are windows based... [D'Oh!]

            So, I don't get the point here. I have worked on development projects on fedora, debian and ubuntu. Linux does not have a BOOL datatype as far as I know. I say - BOOL belongs to Windows. Comments?

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              if you're coding in C, bool just don't exist (I prefer mention it, even it's obvious). in C++, bool is a native type. it weights 1 byte and takes the values 0_b_0000000**1** (true) or 0_b_0000000**0** (false). you can assign an integer to a bool. if it is different from 0, it equals the value "true", and will be automatically converted into 0_b_0000000**1** anyway. BOOL is different. it is an enum type inherited from the old C days. it's definition is like this :

              enum BOOL {
              FALSE = 0,
              TRUE
              };

              An enum is actually an int, which mean it weights 4 bytes (on a 32 bits system). apparently, Microsoft implements it in a different manner, so you have to be much more careful with it. for instance :

              //if defined like this :
              typedef int BOOL;

              //this can be a mistake :
              BOOL b = 4;
              if (b == true) {
              //never enters here
              // because 4 != 1
              }

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              modified on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:50 AM

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              toxcct wrote:

              if you're coding in C, bool just don't exist

              It did not exist in C89, but exists in C99[^]

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              • C Cedric Moonen

                toxcct wrote:

                doesn't a Byte having 8 bits

                Yes, so it is coded 0x00 to 0xFF (hexa representation) or 0b00000000 to 0b11111111 (binary representation).

                Cédric Moonen Software developer
                Charting control [v1.4]

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                yes yes, fixed already ;)

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                  Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

                  May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change

                  come on, have you ever worked under linux ? Microsoft IS NOT the standard, even if 85% of the PCs worldwide are windows based... :doh:

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                  toxcct wrote:

                  have you ever worked under linux

                  What kind of drug is that ? ;P

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                  • C Cedric Moonen

                    toxcct wrote:

                    have you ever worked under linux

                    What kind of drug is that ? ;P

                    Cédric Moonen Software developer
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                    Cedric Moonen wrote:

                    What kind of drug is that ?

                    i'd better give up there ! lol

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                    • J Jhony george

                      hai all, about 'bool' i got idea... from all ur replies... but what about BOOL..? i am not clear...

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                      modified on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:57 PM

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                      BOOL is fully featured integer, for instance, you can do.

                      // WEIRD BOOL (legal) programming
                      BOOL b;
                      b = 1000;
                      b++;

                      You can't do the same with a bool variable. [added] Well, I made a sanity check, and actually VC++ compiler gives just a warning on the following code

                      bool b;
                      b = 1000; // Warning here (loss of info), at runtime b becomes true.
                      b++; // at runtime b remains true.

                      [/added] As stated by someone (Rajesh ? toxcct?) this is a reminiscence of the C language gold ol days (C has not the bool keyword). Using an int to represent Yes/No pair is simply a matter of convention (and convenience). :)

                      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                      This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

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                      • C Cedric Moonen

                        toxcct wrote:

                        have you ever worked under linux

                        What kind of drug is that ? ;P

                        Cédric Moonen Software developer
                        Charting control [v1.4]

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                        Rajesh R Subramanian
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                        I dunno. Azk CPallini. He'z da one who abuzez drug to answer queris realllly fazzt. He haz gud drugz and gud linkz. azk him plz. :laugh:

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                        • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                          May be toxcct is on drugs today for a change. :laugh:

                          Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

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                          CPallini
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                          I supposed too. :laugh:

                          If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                          This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

                          In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                          • CPalliniC CPallini

                            BOOL is fully featured integer, for instance, you can do.

                            // WEIRD BOOL (legal) programming
                            BOOL b;
                            b = 1000;
                            b++;

                            You can't do the same with a bool variable. [added] Well, I made a sanity check, and actually VC++ compiler gives just a warning on the following code

                            bool b;
                            b = 1000; // Warning here (loss of info), at runtime b becomes true.
                            b++; // at runtime b remains true.

                            [/added] As stated by someone (Rajesh ? toxcct?) this is a reminiscence of the C language gold ol days (C has not the bool keyword). Using an int to represent Yes/No pair is simply a matter of convention (and convenience). :)

                            If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                            This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

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                            but one has to be careful with BOOL, as I stated at the end of my most here[^]

                            CPallini wrote:

                            C has not the bool keyword

                            looks like it has[^]

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                              but one has to be careful with BOOL, as I stated at the end of my most here[^]

                              CPallini wrote:

                              C has not the bool keyword

                              looks like it has[^]

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                              toxcct wrote:

                              but one has to be careful with BOOL, as I stated at the end of my most here[^]

                              Indeed. C language implicit mapping of non-zero values to true and zero value to false is more coherent.

                              toxcct wrote:

                              looks like it has[^]

                              I saw it, but: shhhhhh, noone, except Nemanja, knows. :-D

                              If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                              This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

                              In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                              • CPalliniC CPallini

                                toxcct wrote:

                                but one has to be careful with BOOL, as I stated at the end of my most here[^]

                                Indeed. C language implicit mapping of non-zero values to true and zero value to false is more coherent.

                                toxcct wrote:

                                looks like it has[^]

                                I saw it, but: shhhhhh, noone, except Nemanja, knows. :-D

                                If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

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                                CPallini wrote:

                                I saw it, but: shhhhhh, noone, except Nemanja, knows.

                                Oh come on. You are a "C" lover. I would have expected you to know. :-D

                                Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

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                                  CPallini wrote:

                                  I saw it, but: shhhhhh, noone, except Nemanja, knows.

                                  Oh come on. You are a "C" lover. I would have expected you to know. :-D

                                  Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

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                                  CPallini
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                                  Well, I'm a traditional-C lover: that fancy new C99 is alien to me. :laugh:

                                  If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                  This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

                                  In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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                                  • CPalliniC CPallini

                                    Well, I'm a traditional-C lover: that fancy new C99 is alien to me. :laugh:

                                    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                    This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke

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                                    Jhony george
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                                    Thanks for ur kind reply to all members whoever particpated in the discussion., by, Manivannan@Congruent

                                    Born to win...!

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