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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

| On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 04:29  PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > I disagree that the enum object would have value 7, as 7 is not an
| > enumeration (E) value.
| 
| We are not claiming it would have the value 7, we are claiming that
| the compiler is free to use the value 7, if it wants.

Which precisely is the point under dispute.  If it can't use the value
7, it is not free to use it.

-- Gaby