On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:47:04 Joern Rennecke wrote: > Something which I miss in C++ is a way to declare that a function uses > an integral type to pass an enum value (in arguments or return value), > and then at function definition time only check that the integral type > is sufficently large to hold the enum, and then for type checking purposes > treat the parameter / return value as if it had been declared as this enum.
This is exactly N2764, which should be part of C++0x --- at least it seems to be in the draft around p.149. But not part of gcc 4.4. unfortunately. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2764.pdf http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html -- Kind regards, Esben
