http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51242
--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-11-19 11:47:20 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > Is this bug planned to be fixed in future? Yes, of course. It's a bug. > Can I help in any way to do that? Sure, you could look in gcc/cp/*.c for the message "bit-field .* with non-integral type" and see what conditions it depends on and why it disallows scoped enumeration types.