On March 7, 2025 10:49:56 AM PST, Andrew Cooper [off-list ref] wrote:

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(int)true most definitely is guaranteed to be 1.

That's not technically correct any more.

GCC has introduced hardened bools that intentionally have bit patterns
other than 0 and 1.

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/changes.html

~Andrew

Bit patterns in memory maybe (not that I can see the Linux kernel using them) but for compiler-generated conversations that's still a given, or the manager isn't C or anything even remotely like it.