On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 13:41 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:

On 09/01/16 17:51, Joe Perches wrote:

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On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 00:47 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:

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On 09/01/16 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:

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Assigning an int to a bitfield:1 can lose precision.
Change the caller argument uses from 1/0 to true/false.

Can you clarify how assigning 0 or 1 to a one-bit bitfield can cause a
loss of precision?

There are no existing defects.
Using 1/0 is not a loss of precision, it's just
changing to use bool avoids potential errors and
promotes consistency.
Other uses of this function already use true/false.

In the patch description you refer to loss of precision. However, your�
patch does not address any loss of precision issues. So I think that the�
patch description is misleading and could be made more clear.

I tend towards terse being better than verbose.
The original patch description says

"no change to objects"

What would you suggest?