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
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