Re: [Boost-users] safe assign of int to enum

From: Tomas Puverle (Tomas.Puverle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-27 20:52:49

> You make a good point. We should want
> sizeof(other_enum)==sizeof(c_enum). Not everyone needs to map between
> strings and enumerations

While I can't guarantee that, that is the case most of the time.  Put it this 
way - it will be true if your compiler will take a structure with one member 
and no virtual functions and make sizeof(structure)==sizeof(member).
I think I will add a feature to allow the programmer to specify the underlying 
enum size, too (i.e. int, long, etc.)
As I said, the implementation is both space and time efficient.

Tom