Help with bit-field semantics in C and C++

[Mike Stump]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 12:37  PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > The enum case is more like NaNs
> |
> | ?  Can you please back this by citing the standard?
>
> 7.2/6
>   For an enumeration where emin is the smallest enumerator and emax is

Let me try it a different way...   I am skeptical that taking 
additional advantage of rules that exist in C++ and not C is wise.  
Everything else flows from that.