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From: dougg@vice.TEK.COM (Doug Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Question on enumeration behavior
Keywords: enum
Message-ID: <2195@vice.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 88 00:27:16 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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I have observed that when I define an enumeration type, the first
enumeration constant receives the integer value 0, the next 1, etc.
(using the Berkeley C compiler and Microsoft C 5.0).
Is this behavior guaranteed by the ANSI standard?  I want to be sure
that if I use enumeration constants to index into an array, that
the results will be the same, regardless of which (ANSI compatible)
C compiler is used to compile my program.

Thanks for your assistance,

Doug Grant
dougg@vice.TEK.COM
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