From ba6d0eb4db5bb85c772dea3d4c5afb2bfbb5a6d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Araq <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:07:20 +0100
Subject: fixes #3541

---
 lib/core/macros.nim           |  3 +--
 tests/macros/tnodecompare.nim | 16 ++++++++--------
 tests/macros/tsametype.nim    | 20 ++++++++++----------
 web/news.txt                  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/macros.nim b/lib/core/macros.nim
index 552c0dbff..c8cb3d199 100644
--- a/lib/core/macros.nim
+++ b/lib/core/macros.nim
@@ -416,8 +416,7 @@ proc newLit*(i: BiggestInt): NimNode {.compileTime.} =
 
 proc newLit*(b: bool): NimNode {.compileTime.} =
   ## produces a new boolean literal node.
-  result = newNimNode(nnkIntLit)
-  result.intVal = ord(b)
+  result = if b: bindSym"true" else: bindSym"false"
 
 proc newLit*(f: BiggestFloat): NimNode {.compileTime.} =
   ## produces a new float literal node.
diff --git a/tests/macros/tnodecompare.nim b/tests/macros/tnodecompare.nim
index ef25ae370..3870c7559 100644
--- a/tests/macros/tnodecompare.nim
+++ b/tests/macros/tnodecompare.nim
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 discard """
-output: '''1
-0
-1
-0
-1
-0
-1
-0'''
+output: '''true
+false
+true
+false
+true
+false
+true
+false'''
 """
 
 import macros
diff --git a/tests/macros/tsametype.nim b/tests/macros/tsametype.nim
index 6baa34751..34296015f 100644
--- a/tests/macros/tsametype.nim
+++ b/tests/macros/tsametype.nim
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 discard """
-output: '''1
-0
-1
-0
-1
-0
-1
-0
-1
-0'''
+output: '''true
+false
+true
+false
+true
+false
+true
+false
+true
+false'''
 """
 
 import macros
diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt
index 5e6e7894e..192ddbb74 100644
--- a/web/news.txt
+++ b/web/news.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
 News
 ====
 
+..
+  2015-11-XX Version 0.12.2 released
+  ==================================
+
+  This is a bugfix release.
+
+
+  Changes affecting backwards compatibility
+  -----------------------------------------
+
+  - ``macros.newLit`` for ``bool`` now produces false/true symbols which
+    actually work with the bool datatype.
+
+
 2015-10-27 Version 0.12.0 released
 ==================================
 
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