It's equivalent to writing "<something> != 0", although less readable. I have no idea if compilers actually generate better code for it, or people just do it because it's shorter to type.


On 16 June 2014 11:09, Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, the double negate is a little trick to give you either a 1 or a 0 instead of the value of the operation.


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From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Pierre Schweitzer
Sent: 16 June 2014 07:31
To: ros-dev@reactos.org
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 63599: [TASKMGR]: Use the EndTask API to kill tasks.

On 15/06/2014 19:47, hbelusca@svn.reactos.org wrote:
> +    /* Trick: on Windows, pressing the CTRL key forces the task to be ended */
> +    BOOL ForceEndTask = !!(GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x8000);
> +

Was it really meant to be '!!'?

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