Re: enum question.

Ian Collins wrote:
CBFalconer wrote:

.... snip ...

C++ doesn't care how much code it generates. Think about the run
time code needed to do the checking (it can't be done at compile
time, because the values are ints and can be the results of
expressions or function calls).

Sorry, but it is. You can't assign an int to an enum variable
without a cast in C++. There isn't any runtime checking, so you
can assign bollocks values if you go out of your way to do so.

We are talking about C, not C++.

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