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Why did Win32 define BOOL as a signed int instead of an unsigned int?

March 28, 2011 Mar 28, 2011 03/28/11

Raymond Chen

Igor Levicki wants somebody from Microsoft to explain why was defined as a instead of an . You don't need to work for Microsoft to figure this out. All the information you need is publically available. Quoting from K&R Classic, which was the operative C standards document at the time Windows was being developed: 7.6 Relational ...