G++ enums 'underlying type'

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:

| Agreed, to clarify: an enumeration (enumerated type, i.e. enum)
| representation need be no larger than the smallest compatible integer
| type, which I believe was the question.  Enumerators, as you've noted
| above are specified as int sized constants during an enumeration's
| declaration, as it's unknown until the declaration is completed what
| the range, therefore necessary size, of the enumeration and it's
| correspondingly member representations need be.
| 
| We agree?

No.

Enumerators are for type ints in C.  They are of type enumeration in C++.

-- Gaby