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

John Love-Jensen eljay@adobe.com
Thu Sep 22 16:28:00 GMT 2005


Hi Dave, Daniel, and Gaurav,

For C99, I stand corrected.

For C89 or C++98, I think my statement is applicable.  (But until I
double-check by reading those standards, take that with a grain of salt.)

For all three, having enum be an int (signed or unsigned) is legit of
course.

For all three, having enum be a long is (at best) a compiler extension, at
worst (-pedantic ?) not supported.  If I'm reading the specs correctly.
NOTE:  not germane to Gaurav's question, just talking out loud.

Sincerely,
--Eljay



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