bool defined where?

I thought is was a builtin type. But a simple snippet of code in C++ using visual studio 2008 is complaining that it is an unreferenced local variable when i do
bool myBoolVar;

By any chance did your file have a .c extension. ANSI C-language does not have bool intrinsically defined.
If you want, you can post the small snippet and we'll see if it runs it builds in different environments.

The bool is a keyword in C++. You cannot redefine it. If you read that in your old source, it is probably a C source -- as phoffric said. If you want to have syntactically the same bool type and true and false constants, you can add elsewhere code like this:

#ifndef __cplusplus
typedef unsigned char bool;
static const bool false = 0;
static const bool true = 1;
#endif

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The __cplusplus symbol (two underscores) is defined by the any C++ compiler for solving the situations like this. The code says: If the symbol is not defined (that is we use a C compiler [setting]), then define the bool type using the standard C way. Define also the constants. If the symbol is defined, then the lines are skipped and the built-in type and values (keywords) are used.

I did not check, whether bool became also keyword in later C standards. In such case, the above construct would colide even with C.

good observation pepr.
Would also have helped if the author had used the word, "warning". I took complaining too strongly as in error.

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