Tom Lane wrote:
> What bothers me about that is I don't think the C spec mandates the
> representation width. If we could guarantee that enum typtype_type
> was 1 byte I'd be all for it.
The width is 4 both for the macro and the enum case. Both
#define TYPTYPE_BASE 'b'
and
enum ... {
TYPTYPE_BASE = 'b',
effectively generate int constants named TYPTYPE_BASE with decimal value
98. So there are no storage advantages either way.
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