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C Enum Sizes; or, How MSVC Ignores The Standard Once Again

Quality: 6/10 Relevance: 5/10

Summary

Explains how C enums derive their underlying type and contrasts GCC/Clang and MSVC behavior with large constant values. Includes a reproducible scenario where a 32-bit enum under MSVC loses information, and offers practical workarounds for cross-compiler and FFI contexts.

🚀 Service construit par Johan Denoyer