On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:10:26AM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > 1. Are enums allowed as types only in C++ and not in C? They are part of ANSI C. > gcc rejects using an enum as a type whereas g++ accepts it. Not really. You need to say "enum BODY body". > When the target enum of the cast contains no name that has the same > integer value as the value being casted, how does g++ accept the cast? > Is this expected behaviour or a bug? You are doing C style casts here, which you shouldn't. The compiler will warn you at best, but in the end he will handle everything as raw bytes. Leslie -- Personal homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias.net/~sky/homepage/ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83
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