Subj : Re: enumerated variables - how to coerce them to anything else than an Int ?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : John F\(dot\)
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 10:59 pm


"R.Wieser" wrote:
> John F(dot) wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
>
>> although some compilers allow long values to be stored as enums like
> [snip]
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Alas, although it does not generate an error,
> the resulting variable is still an Int :-/

Try including a value larger than maximum int. That helped with OW 1.3 to 
get it sized 32bits...

[CODE]
#include "stdio.h"
#include "conio.h"

enum
{
    x = 1L,
    y = 12999993L
}X;


int main(void)
{
    X=x;
    X=y;
    printf("sizeof(X)==%ld::sizeof(long)==%ld\n",sizeof(X),sizeof(long));
    getch();
    return 0;
}
[/CODE]

You wrote:
""
>I've got a structure (not designed by me) that consists outof a number of
>longs.  Several of it's members contain enumerated data, like { default,
>yes, no }.
""

OK so far. what are the values for def, y, n ? and why weren't they designed 
to be enums then? :-)

""
>I would like to make sure that I normally cannot put anything else in the
>structure-member than what's permitted for it, but have hit a snag : I do
>not seem to be able to enumerate anything else than Int's (the compiler's
>default).
""
Are you allowed to change the structure??? How comes that?
Do you still need to store arbitrary longs into these member-variables?

Could you give a short snippet of the code you need to be done?

regards
John

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