Can I assume (bool)true == (int)1
for any C++ compiler ?
According to the standard, you should be safe with that assumption. The C++ bool
type has two values - true
and false
with corresponding values 1 and 0.
The thing to watch about for is mixing bool
expressions and variables with BOOL
expression and variables. The latter is defined as FALSE = 0
and TRUE != FALSE
, which quite often in practice means that any value different from 0 is considered TRUE
.
A lot of modern compilers will actually issue a warning for any code that implicitly tries to cast from BOOL
to bool
if the BOOL
value is different than 0 or 1.