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Subject: Re: Can "enum" be forced to a certain "bitness"?
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Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> writes:
> Bartc wrote:
[...]
>> Why shouldn't it have a type? The following displays "4":
>>
>> enum {red,green} colour;
>>
>> printf("%d\n",sizeof(colour));
>>
>> So it has a size, at least.
>
> It doesn't have a type *per se*.

Of course it has a type.  That type is the anonymous enumerated type
created by `enum {red,green}`.  The type is compatible with an
implementation-defined integer type (which may or may not be int).

Why do you think it doesn't have a type?

>                                  This is just 'C', where
> "when in doubt, it's an int."

That may be true, but only because there are no cases where there's any
doubt (unless you can think of one).

[...]

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