From: Doug Eleveld <deleveld AT dds DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: enum problem
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 12:01:52 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

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> Also, I strongly suspect that the type of an expression "a|b" is an
> int, regardless of its value.  (Could any ANSI guru please confirm
> this?)

Yes, I C++ it does, and I expect in C also.  Almost all operations on
enums produce ints.  Except of course when there global operators in
scope like this:

enumtype operator|(const enumtype one, const enumtype two)
   {
   return enumtype((int)one|(int)two));
   }

There is a big thread in comp.lang.c++.moderated called 'C++ and enums'
which discuss this.  Go find it on dejanews.

Hope this helps,

Doug Eleveld