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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:00:21 -0200
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From: Eyal Ben-David <eyalb AT aks DOT com>
Subject: Re: enum and djgpp



>     enum constants { false = 0, true = 1};
> 
>     This statement which will compile under other compilers will not
> with djgpp I get a parse error before false and a missing ';' after
> right bracket error. any ideas ?

In other compilers this is a non-standard extension.
In C you should write:

   typedef enum { false = 0, true = 1 } constants;

Note that in C++ the two forms are the acceptable and identical.

Eyal.