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- From: diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Subject: Re: Compatability of enum types and integer types
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- Reply-To: diamond@jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
- References: <1992Dec21.225604.18749@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:29:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.225604.18749@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
- >The ANSI C standard says (in 3.5.2.2):
- > "Each enumerated type shall be compatible with an integer type;
- > the choice of type is implementation-defined."
- >I interpret it to mean that there *must* exist some integer type `T' such that
- > enum E { red, green, blue } object;
- > enum E object;
- > T object;
- >... is a valid translation unit.
- >The person on the other side of this discussion seems to be claiming that
- >[...] the implementation may "put the fix in" so that no matter what type
- >you try to use for `T', the implementation will say "Sorry. You guessed wrong
-
- Being implementation-defined means that it must be documented. Regarding
- some other implementation-defined matters (e.g. which of two possible results
- is obtained from the % operator) most of the regulars in this newsgroup seem
- to feel that the implementation must define a result that is identical over
- all usages. This kind of opinion suggests that the documentation must tell
- you which type you can use for `T'.
-
- My opinion is that the documentation can tell you that the implementation
- plays dirty pool. However, I seem to be a minority of 1.
-
- Surely an interpretation ruling would carry more weight than any of the above.
- --
- Norman Diamond diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
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