Typed enumerations for C++

[manuka89]

When generating enumerations for C++, is it possible to generate typed enumerations?

I mean to generate:

enum Color : uint8_t
{
BLUE = 0,
GREEN = 1,
...
}

instead of

enum Color
{
BLUE = (std::uint8_t)0,
GREEN = (std::uint8_t)1,
...
}

[tmontgomery]

Sure. Send a PR and I will look at it.

[manuka89]

You mean PR=Pull Request?

[tmontgomery]

Yes

[rigtorp]

@tmontgomery Does this project require C++11 or higher? Because that is needed for enum classes.

If we do require C++11 or higher we could remove the SBE_NOEXCEPT and SBE_CONSTEXPR macro.

[tmontgomery]

Not all C++11 compilers are equal. Such as various older releases of Visual Studio (right after 11 started showing up) and gcc that don't fully support every piece of the standard.

So, while C++11 is suggested, we try to make it as optional as possible to have the broadest base.

[rigtorp]

Sure, that's why it's better to target some common platforms (Ubuntu LTS, Centos, SUSE, whatever is common non-EOL VS) and run CI against them. I'm pretty sure all of them have compilers with enum class support.

Using enum class could improve type safety in the C++ API. It would also be a API breakage.Something to consider for the future.

I will create a separate issue for this.