declaring C enum types

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Oct-2002, Michael Weber <michaelw at foldr.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:25:44AM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
> > I am pretty sure that ISO C says that enums are equivalant to ints
> > always. of course, not all implementations may be ISO C compliant.
> > 	John
> 
> Right.

No, this is wrong.

> C99#6.4.4.3:
> [...]
> [#2] An identifier declared as an enumeration  constant  has
>      type int.

The enumeration constants have type `int'.
However, the enumeration type itself is a different type.
The enumeration type need not have the same size or representation as int.

 | 6.7.2.2  Enumeration specifiers
 |
 | [#4]   Each enumerated type shall be compatible with  char,  a
 |        signed  integer  type,  or  an  unsigned  integer type.  The
 |        choice  of  type is implementation-defined, but shall be
 |        capable of representing the values of all the members of the
 |        enumeration.

 | Footnote 108:
 |        An implementation may delay the choice of  which  integer
 |        type until all enumeration constants have been seen.

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