Re: enum may be signed

[Ken Raeburn]

On May 1, 2010, at 13:56, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Interesting.  I didn't know about that part of the C language.  Is it
> possible to specify that this is an unsigned enum somehow?

Not really... nothing in standard C supports it (in fact IIRC it doesn't allow 
enum bitfields anyways, but that's a common extension), and anything 
MSVC-specific won't help when the next such compiler comes along.

> Of course we can add one more bit (we have plenty of bits left there),
> but I'd first like to know how this is usually handled, since it seems
> to imply that MSVC always requires one extra bit to store enums.

I think adding the extra bit and using "unsigned int" bitfields are the two 
usual ways to deal with it.

Ken