G++ enums 'underlying type'

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:12, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > In C, enumerator are ints -- even though the associated enumeration
| > type is considered a distinct types.  Only C++ allows for the smallest
| > integer type as the underlying type; and C++ enumerators are not ints. 
| 
| In C, enumeration *constants* are ints.

They are called *enumerators*, which is what I was saying :-)