No effect of -fshort-enums..is it a bug

Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 22 19:03:00 GMT 2005


On Thursday 22 September 2005 19:31, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:50:39PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > of course, but the behavior of a compiler with a special implementation
> > dependent switch is not specified by the standard! Switches can do any
> > amount of violence to the standard you like, the only requirement is
> > that there be a defined set of switches which gives standard defined
> > semantics.
>
> Except that the point I've been trying to make for the last day is that
> -fshort-enums does no damage to the standard.  At least for C99.

It's also worth noting that -fshort-enums is the default on some targets, as 
required by the platform ABI.

Paul



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