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2024-10-26

377. Enum whose enumerators will not fit in any integral type

[Voted into WP at April 2003 meeting.]

9.7.1 [dcl.enum] defines the underlying type of an enumeration as an integral type "that can represent all the enumerator values defined in the enumeration".

What does the standard say about this code:

  enum E { a = LONG_MIN, b = ULONG_MAX };

?

I think this should be ill-formed.

Proposed resolution:

In 9.7.1 [dcl.enum] paragraph 5 after

The underlying type of an enumeration is an integral type that can represent all the enumerator values defined in the enumeration.

If no integral type can represent all the enumerator values, the enumeration is ill-formed.