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From: Mike Waychison <mike@waychison.com>
Subject: Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:23:03 -0700
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Mike Waychison wrote:
> 
>>enums in C are (de?)promoted to integral types under most conditions, so 
>>the type-checking is useless.
> 
> 
> It's a warning in gcc afaik and spare should complain as well.
> 

Check again.

You must be thinking of another language.

Show me how you can get warnings out of this:

enum foo { FOO, };
 

static enum foo doit(enum foo bar) {
         int i = bar;
         return i;
}
 

int main(void)
{
         int i;
         i = doit(0);
         return 0;
}

Mike Waychison