Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 13:29:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you declare an enum ? Message-ID: <199604032029.NAA19898@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960403092059.1411A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Apr 3, 96 09:23:18 am
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> hello! > > What is the gcc way of declaring an enum? > > I have a line like this in a .h file: > > enum boolean {false, true}; > > When I try to compile this, gcc (and g++) barfs on it, saying that there > is a parse error before 'false'. > > Is there a different way to declare an enum type? You missed the meeting! 8-). You are trying to enum a C++ reserved word. This is a fairly recent addition to the list of reserved words. This would work in C, if there weren't an already existing typedef for "boolean" (or a #define as an atomic type). /usr/include/math.h uses this construct for fdversion without problems... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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