enum within structure??

[sethukr]

can we define enum within a structure??

for example,
typedef enum {red,blue}color ;

struct s1{
color c;
}obj;

obj.c = blue;

Is it possible?? if yes, can anybody tell me how it possible??

-Sethu

[Ian Collins]

se*****@gmail.c om wrote:

can we define enum within a structure??

for example,
typedef enum {red,blue}color ;

struct s1{
color c;
}obj;

obj.c = blue;

Is it possible?? if yes, can anybody tell me how it possible??

Like this?

struct X {
enum Colour { red, blue } colour;
};

int main(void)
{
struct X x;

x.colour = blue;

return 0;
}

--
Ian Collins.

[bluejack]

On Mar 8, 11:22 pm, "seth...@gmail. com" <seth...@gmail. comwrote:

can we define enum within a structure??

for example,

typedef enum {red,blue}color ;

struct s1{
color c;

}obj;

obj.c = blue;

Is it possible?? if yes, can anybody tell me how it possible??

Sure. Nothing wrong with that. Are you having a problem? Maybe post
your code.

[santosh]

se*****@gmail.c om wrote:

can we define enum within a structure??

for example,

typedef enum {red,blue}color ;

struct s1{
color c;
}obj;

obj.c = blue;

Is it possible??

Yes.

An alternative is to do away with the typedef and give a name for the
enumeration type.

[sethukr]

Thanks to all of u
-Sethu

[Servé Laurijssen]

<se*****@gmail. comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ c51g2000cwc.goo glegroups.com.. .

can we define enum within a structure??

for example,
typedef enum {red,blue}color ;

struct s1{
color c;
}obj;

obj.c = blue;

Is it possible?? if yes, can anybody tell me how it possible??

It is possible because you can consider the type of an enum as int so it's
no more special than having an int member.

Beware though that if you do something like

struct X
{
enum Colour { red, green } col;
};

The enum Colour is actually *not* an embedded type as it would be in C++ so
the following should still compile

Colour c = green;

This would be an error in C++

[Keith Thompson]

"Servé Laurijssen" <se*@n.tkwrites :
[...]

Beware though that if you do something like

struct X
{
enum Colour { red, green } col;
};

The enum Colour is actually *not* an embedded type as it would be in C++ so
the following should still compile

Colour c = green;

This would be an error in C++

It would be an error in C as well, but this:

enum Colour c = green;

would be legal.

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