I'm using someone else's code that was written with an older compiler that mapped a special BOOL type to an unsigned int, but in my compiler it's mapped to a true bool. In some places in his code he uses the bitwise shift operator << on the bool type, which I had never seen before and my compiler surprised me when it didn't complain.
Is that valid C++? Does the bool automatically get promoted to an int or uint?
I saw this related question, which provided some clarity on another issue, but it doesn't address the shift operators.
From Shift operators [expr.shift]
The operands shall be of integral or unscoped enumeration type and integral promotions are performed. The type of the result is that of the promoted left operand
bool is an integral type so the code is well formed (bool is promoted to int and result is an int).
From [conv.prom], we show what integers the booleans get promoted to:
A prvalue of type
boolcan be converted to a prvalue of typeint, withfalsebecoming zero and true becomingone
Afterwards, the shift behaves normally. (Thanks, @chris)