G++ enums 'underlying type'

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:

| Paul Schlie wrote:
| 
| >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.
| >
| Actually, the question was rather different: which is the *actual*
| representation
| used by one specific implementation, that is the GNU C++ compiler? I know

I think your question is more C++-centric than C -- Paul Schlie is
arguing about what looks like C rather than C++. 

I believe that you need compiler support to detect the undelying type.
(unless you do unreliable tricks like playing with the maximum value).

-- Gaby