short enums on VC++ 6.0 (or VC++ 2008) ?

Question

It would be very convenient to have "short enum" or "char enum" in VC++, as I have seen mentioned elsewhere for GCC etc. Is there some option in VC++ to allow this?

Answer 1

You can use something like

enum name : char
{
    values
}

but this is a VC-specific extension. Not sure if there's standardised support for this in VC.