----- Original Message -----
From: "Gennaro Prota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Incidently, an unnamed type has no linkage.
>
> I think the issue is a little more subtle in that a) it's names that
> have or don't have linkage, not types b) a typedef allows you to give
> a name, for linkage purposes, to what C++ calls an 'unnamed type',
> e.g.:
>
> typedef struct { int n; } s;
Yeah. However, this doesn't really apply to what I'm talking about with:
enum { a, b, c };
Yes, for linkage purposes 'enum xyz { }' is equivalent to 'typedef enum { }
xyz'.
> Oops. X here has still external linkage, though of course you don't
> know its "linkage name" and thus cannot refer it from another
> translation unit.
Yeah, my mistake. Sorry!
Paul Mensonides
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