[gcc-as-cxx] enum conversion to int

[Matt]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Matt <matt@use.net> writes:
>
>> Yes, was I pasted was a local change. I was trying to eliminate the
>> implicit cast to int from the enum type, which was causing my
>> --enable-werror build to fail. At this point, I think the better
>> option would be to break up the enum values into indivdual #defines
>> and do a typedef df_changeable_flags int;
>
> Don't use #defines.  Enums give better debug info by default.  typedef
> df_changeable_flags int is fine if that seems necessary.  Right now
> the code simply doesn't use the df_changeable_flags type any time
> there is more than one flag.

Okay, good to know about the better debuggability of enums. If the flags 
are supposed to be mutually exclusive, then the code in my other email 
where two flags are added together seems contrary.

Regardless, does this mean  that the bit-wise operations for set_flags and 
clear_flags could be changed to simple assignments? That would indeed fix 
this issue in a nice way.

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