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From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>
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Subject: RE: Need Value of enum type not position.
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Date: 2003-11-10T13:25:09-05:00

I like that one even better, because it's even shorter
and clearer.  Define the range of the numbers you want,
let the compiler figure out what it thinks is the best
number of bits to use, and then make the enumerated
type match it.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Marius Amado Alves [mailto:amado.alves@netcabo.pt]

For what it's worth, this exact problem was discussed and solved in the
thread "accesing internal codes used for an enumeration" by myself on 7
May 2001.

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