declaring C enum types

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Oct-2002, Antony Courtney <antony at apocalypse.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know off hand:
> 
>    - Is it a safe, portable assumption that enums will always be 
> encoded as an unsigned short or 16-bit word?

No, that assumption is not safe or portable.

>    - If not, then how should enum values be declared in the FFI?

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