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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enum type
Message-ID: <634@zen.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 14:13:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 14:13:26 1987
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Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
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I have recently been using Microsoft C 4.00 and came across a situation
involving enums which the compiler complained about but which had worked
on the other C compiler I use regularly (HP 9000 series 500).

I have a boolean decleration thus

enum BOOLEAN { false = 0, true = 1};
typedef enum BOOLEAN boolean;


and when used so

  boolean fini = false;
  
  
  while ( !fini )
  {...}


the MSC compiler complains


   "'!' : illegal with enums" and
   "'!' : bad right operand"


What I'd like to know is if I'm doing something wrong or if the MSC
compiler is goofy.

		vic
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