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
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:01:56AM +0100, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
> >
> > > - If not, then how should enum values be declared in the FFI?
> >
> > What you need to do is run a little autoconf-like program which
> > constructs a program containing a suitable example, runs it through a
> > C compiler and tells you what's going on.
> >
> > hsc comes very close but I'm not certain if it does exactly what you
> > need. If not, compiling and running this program should tell you:
>
> Hmm, careful. The C compiler is free to be clever, and use a char if there are
><=256 elements in the enum, and short or int otherwise. You want to know the size of
>your particular enum, not any random enum.
>
> (betraying my age, but didn't Turbo C do this?)
>
> --KW 8-)
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