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dmm@vnet.ibm.com (dave) writes:


|In <1992Aug26.184220.8236@taumet.com> Steve Clamage writes:
|>If enums are smaller than ints, avoid those too.

|That means that given

|  enum c { red, green, blue };
|  int f( x ) enum c x; { }

|there is no strictly-conforming way to write a parameter-list prototype
|for the function f.

Correct.  Don't use enum parameters if you mix old-style definitions
with prototypes.

|  int f( int );
|would be right if  enum c  were of short or char size.  If  enum c  were
|of int or long size, then

|  int f( enum c );
|would be the prototype, right?

We are talking about nonportable code at this point, but that is
basically right.  If enums are the same size as int, you could still use
	int f(int);
for the prototype.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
Vice Chair, ANSI C++ Committee, X3J16