[fpc-devel] enums and integer auto conversion

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Mon Sep 10 22:41:25 CEST 2012


On 10 Sep 2012, at 22:06, Daniƫl Mantione wrote:

>> On Monday 10 September 2012 20:18:52 Vincent Snijders wrote:
>>> If it is the combination of enum, then the type of the parameter is set of
>>> enum.
>> Ahum, I am talking about passing combinations of enums values
>> (usually bitmasks, assigned enums, some assigned enums
>> are already combinations of other) to C or C++.
>> Sets are not binary compatible for that.
> 
> They should be.

No, sets are an opaque data type. Their internal format is undefined.


Jonas


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