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Tweak the cBOOL() macro to avoid problems with the AIX compiler.
authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:44:18 +0000 (19:44 +0100)
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:58:09 +0000 (23:58 +0000)
(cherry picked from commit 0cebf65582f924952bfee1472749d442d51e43e6)

handy.h

diff --git a/handy.h b/handy.h
index 2c2311a..8777644 100644 (file)
--- a/handy.h
+++ b/handy.h
@@ -115,9 +115,10 @@ Null SV pointer. (No longer available when C<PERL_CORE> is defined.)
 
 /* a simple (bool) cast may not do the right thing: if bool is defined
  * as char for example, then the cast from int is implementation-defined
+ * (bool)!!(cbool) in a ternary triggers a bug in xlc on AIX
  */
 
-#define cBOOL(cbool) ((bool)!!(cbool))
+#define cBOOL(cbool) ((cbool) ? (bool)1 : (bool)0)
 
 /* Try to figure out __func__ or __FUNCTION__ equivalent, if any.
  * XXX Should really be a Configure probe, with HAS__FUNCTION__