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Re: No effect of -fshort-enums..is it a bug
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Gaurav Gautam, Noida" <gauravga at noida dot hcltech dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow at false dot org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:41:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: No effect of -fshort-enums..is it a bug
- References: <40CC5CC7CDACC048B1299C57025E330CFD5F6C@HSDLNTD1110010.noida.hcltech.com>
"Gaurav Gautam, Noida" <gauravga@noida.hcltech.com> writes:
> Does -fshort-enum guides the size of enumeration type or the size of
> enumerator constant ?
An enumerator constant is not an object, thus it has no size of its own.
Since the enumerator constants are of type int, not the enum type,
-fshort-enum should not have any effect on their type.
Andreas.
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