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From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: question about an array of enum
Message-ID: <it1.657622430@ra>
Date: 3 Nov 90 08:53:50 GMT
Distribution: comp
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  consider the following code:

typedef enum {false, true} boolean;

main()
{
	boolean bit_fields[1000];

	bit_fields[0] = true;
}

  How much memory does bit_fields actually take up, assuming a 32-bit
architecture?  Will my C compiler treat it as an array of int's?
(Sun OS 4.1, Sun cc).  What about other C compilers?  (I know turbo C
has a switch that allows it to treat enum data types as int's).

  I thought about using an array of characters and calculate
the positions, but I'd rather use enum if possible.  It's quite a bit
simpler.

  Any help is greatly appreciated...

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