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15 years ago

Short Enum Type (16Bits)

Hi, In Altera NiosII Eclipse compiler, the enum type is defualt to 4 bytes in size. Is there any# pragma or compiler control that force the enum type size to 2 bytes? If not, is there any way to...
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15 years ago

Hi,

I've never used it but GCC has the -fshort-enums option, which tells the compiler to make shorts out of your enums.

Maybe it's worth to try it....

Philipp