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  2. From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: mixing enums and integers
  5. Date: 8 Jan 1996 03:44:39 GMT
  6. Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  7. Distribution: world
  8. Message-ID: <4cq3v7$q3m@newshost.lanl.gov>
  9. References: <4cij6k$dvb@yrkpa.kias.com> <DKtpIL.72z@eskimo.com>
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  11.  
  12. In article <DKtpIL.72z@eskimo.com>, scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) writes:
  13. <snip>
  14. |>     typedef enum x enum_t;
  15. |>     enum x {...};
  16.  
  17. ANSI C forbids forward declaration of enums! The first reference to an enum
  18. tag _must_ define the members of the enumeration.
  19.  
  20. Cheers
  21. Tanmoy
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