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Bool in C Use `bool` in C program

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Usually in C we use int to represent boolean values, like:

int a = 0;
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But sometimes use bool to define the boolean type, and use true & false to represent the value will make our code more clear. I just found out that you can do this by including stdbool.h file:

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdbool.h>  int main() { bool rainyDay = false; printf("Rainy day: %d\n", rainyDay); return 0; }
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Compile and run it:

Rainy day: 0
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Actually the stdbool.h just defined the bool using #define, which map the bool type to _Bool, true to 1 and false to 0. Check the full source code here.

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