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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on enumeration behavior
Message-ID: <7083@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 14 Jan 88 10:26:38 GMT
References: <2195@vice.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: enum

In article <2195@vice.TEK.COM> dougg@vice.TEK.COM (Doug Grant) writes:
>I have observed that when I define an enumeration type, the first
>enumeration constant receives the integer value 0, the next 1, etc.
>Is this behavior guaranteed by the ANSI standard?

Yes, and you can force any value to be used for the start of a
sequence of enumeration values by specifying it, as in:
	enum { red = 4, blue, green, yellow = 1 } color;
which gives blue and green the values 5 and 6 respectively.