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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bugprone-switch-missing-default-case
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>On 23/10/2025 18:15, Thiago Adams wrote:
>>> On 10/23/2025 12:06 PM, David Brown wrote:
>
>>People do this regularly.  Personally, I usually prefer to have the 
>>"last", "max", or "count" indicator outside the enumeration :
>>
>>	enum E1 { A, B, C, D };
>>	static const int count_of_E1 = D;
>
> D has the value '3', yet there are four elements in the
> set.  Perhaps the name should be count_of_E1_minus_1?
>
> How do you use count_of_E1 in this case?
>
> Too bad 'sizeof' doesn't work on typed enums.

sizeof works just fine on typed enums.  It just doesn't tell you how
many members it has.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */