https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109532
--- Comment #2 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #1) > That is because a scopped enum has an underlying type of int if not supplied. > > From [dcl.enum]/5: > For a scoped enumeration type, the underlying type is int if it is not > explicitly specified. I should say this is from the C++ standard there. -fshort-enums does not change the language, only ABI.