[petsc-dev] PETSC_TRUE and PETSC_TRUTH

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Chetan Jhurani wrote:

> Hi petsc-dev,
> 
> This is a minor enhancement request.
> 
> Using PETSC_TRUTH instead of PETSC_TRUE unintentionally will lead to
> unexpected results and annoying bugs.  Seems like PETSC_TRUTH is
> a different enum value for enumerating data types and currently equals 9.
> 
> g++ does warn on comparing different enum types, but gcc does not (v4.3.0).
> 
> Any possibility of changing the name of PETSC_TRUTH to something
> that is far away from PETSC_TRUE?


Perhaps we should use PETSC_BOOL instead of PETSC_TRUTH..

Satish