Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:36:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you declare an enum ? Message-ID: <199604040006.JAA22021@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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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Doug White stands accused of saying: > > What is the gcc way of declaring an enum? Same as normal C. > 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? Compiles fine here. I suspect that you've got another 'true', 'false' or 'boolean' in scope. If you're trying to define a boolean type, you want : typedef enum {false, true} bool_t; If you just want two constants, one false, the other true, use #define FALSE (0) #define TRUE (!FALSE) > Doug White | University of Oregon -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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