CFront problems

bool type

CFront does not provide a builtin bool type. This has been worked around by providing a supplementary "bool.h" header which typedefs bool as int.

Whilst this is a workable solution to the problem in most cases, it is impossible to overload functions or parameterize template classes in a way which distinguishes bool from int. This is most obvious in the stream classes - where the member functions operator<<(ostream const&, bool) and operator>>(istream const&, bool&) have had to be omitted - and in the implementation of the template class specialization vector<bool> - which has been replaced with a non-template class vector_bool.

It may be possible to define a bool class to overcome these restrictions.