c/7654: -Wenum-assignment : Warn if an enum is being assigned a non enum value

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Jan 2 14:04:00 GMT 2003


> Synopsis: -Wenum-assignment : Warn if an enum is being assigned a non enum value
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: bangerth
> State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 20 21:50:51 2002
> State-Changed-Why:
>     I think your proposal is not very much in the spirit of the
>     C language, and I doubt that anyone will want to implement
>     it. enums are too much used interchangably with integers
>     that such an enum would be useful. Note that enums also
>     appear all over the place in system header files!
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=7654

The above is largely subjective opinion.  Subjective opinion is not a 
reason for closing an enhancement request.

Andrew




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