From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: enum and djgpp
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:20:57 -0700
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Eyal Ben-David wrote:

> >     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.

No, in C this is perfectly legitimate; it just means that to refer to the
type, he'd have to write `enum constants'.

His problem, as I posted earlier on this thread, is likely that he's
compiling with C++, where DJGPP supports the new C++ standard bool
datatype with keywords true and false.  This is what's confusing gcc.

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