Question

When I try to compile a function with return type bool in GCC compiler, the compiler throws me this error.

error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘comp’

But when I change the return type to int, it is getting compiled successfully.

The function is as below.

bool comp(struct node *n1,struct node *n2)
{
    if(n1 == NULL || n2 == NULL)
    return false;
    while(n1 != NULL && n2 != NULL)
    {
        if(n1->data == n2->data)
        { n1=n1->link; n2=n2->link; }
        else
            return false;

    }
    return true;
}

Here I am comparing two linked lists. Is bool return type supported in C or not?

Answer 1

bool does not exist as a keyword pre-C99.

In C99, it should work, but as @pmg points out below, it’s still not a keyword. It’s a macro declared in <stdbool.h>.