------- Additional Comments From john at johnmaddock dot co dot uk 2005-08-08 09:57 ------- Is the print member really already overflowed? It has a value of 0200 which is 0x80: so if char is signed (it is on cygwin) then it's setting the sign bit, which should be OK I think. Although I admit I would have prefered the use of an unsigned type as a bitmask.
Aha! Is this the cause? : the signed value is promoted to an int initially *with sign extension*, and then when the compiler has all the values it desides that the enum needs only one byte for storage, so it tries to fit all the values into "signed char", and only then finds that the promoted value won't fit? I'm just making wild guesses here you understand! Thanks, John Maddock. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23271
