https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58559
Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #2 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #1) > - If you add a large enumerator so that the range of valid values is > increased, there are no surprises: > > enum E { A, B, _max = -1u }; // (e < 0) and f(e) promote to unsigned now Alternatively, give it a negative enumerator to make the underlying type signed: enum E { A, B, _min = INT_MIN }; This will still promote to int, but it also causes GCC to choose int as the underlying type so there are no surprises (and no warnings for (long long)e < 0). Based on the reasoning above (i.e. for enum E { A,B } the C++ standard requires promotion to int irrespective of the compiler's choice of underlying type) I'm going to close this as not a bug.