No effect of -fshort-enums..is it a bug

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Sep 21 15:42:00 GMT 2005


"Gaurav Gautam, Noida" <gauravga@noida.hcltech.com> writes:

> Does -fshort-enum guides the size of enumeration type or the size of
> enumerator constant ?

An enumerator constant is not an object, thus it has no size of its own.
Since the enumerator constants are of type int, not the enum type,
-fshort-enum should not have any effect on their type.

Andreas.

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