setting BI operands

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:55:53AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
: No, it doesn't work as expected.  If I set a BI to the value of newc, I get
: the 8-bit value of newc, not a 0 or a 1.  This leads to unpredictable
: results when later interrogating cbit.

In other words, it is the use of a BI variable as an rvalue that is the
problem.  Perhaps the right approach then is to forbid coercion from BI
to *INT, or to define it formally (such as "int foo = ! ! bar;").

- FChE
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