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From: schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: Enumeration Problem (Simple)
Keywords: Switch, Enumeration
Message-ID: <25A4350F.11937@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 05:47:59 GMT
References: <7570@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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In-reply-to: rajarar@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bala Rajaraman)

In article <7570@hubcap.clemson.edu>, rajarar@hubcap (Bala Rajaraman) writes:
>
>Stroustrup's C++ book indicates that if in a switch only a few of the 
>enumerated values are handled the compiler issues a warning [pg. 64-65].
>	In the following program the g++ compiler neither issues a warning, 
>nor does it prevent me from assigning an arbitrary value to a variable of 
>an enumerated type.

Try using the -Wall -Wenum-clash flag with g++.  This will warn about
the unused enum value in the switch and the assignment of an integer
to an enumeral.

  Doug
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Douglas C. Schmidt