According to Bernhard Tschirren:

Is it possible to specify the value of an enumerated type?

AFAIK, this is not possible. Enumerated types are used whenever something abstract is needed where the numeric value does not matter.

I was trying to port a C header file which did something like this:

typedef enum hello_everybody {
    hello_error = -1,
    hello_first =  0,
    hello_second,
    hello_third
    ...

I would translate it into a forest of constants.

If everybody agrees that there should be an extension like this in GPC: It's probably not so hard to implement. Suggestions for the syntax? Objections against it?

Peter

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