Re: enum safety

Sard wrote:
Hi,

Page 39 K&R2 says

'Although variables of enum types may be declared, compilers need not
check that what you store in such a variable is a valid value for the
enumeration'

This is why (in my opinion) enums are horribly broken in C.

int main ()
{
enum colours purple =c ;

c is a pointer, enums are integer types.

You would get the same diagnostic with

int n = c;

--
Ian Collins.
.

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