From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25439 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2014 10:40:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25391 invoked by uid 48); 11 Jun 2014 10:40:01 -0000 From: "mpolacek at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug c/61469] language feature: Support for enum underlying type Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:40:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: c X-Bugzilla-Version: unknown X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: mpolacek at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00745.txt.bz2 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61469 Marek Polacek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mpolacek at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #4 from Marek Polacek --- But those other features (inline functions, const, bool) are specified by standard. What is the use case? If you want to save space, there's __attribute__ ((__packed__)) or -fshort-enums (use with caution). We should be very careful with adding such extensions.