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 <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Phillip Wood committed
Jul 16, 2025 at 10:38 UTC
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@@ -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 <stdbool.h>.
+
New C99 features that we cannot use yet:
. %z and %zu as a printf() argument for a size_t (the %z being for