On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:15:06 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 08:32:39PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> This deprives us of the -Wswitch-enum warning on all compilers
> because some don't detect the bogus negative value comparison.
> And the comment has even less power than the clang warning. So:
>
> 1. Is it actually worth the trouble to store enum values in
> typedef'd enums?
> 2. If so, can we make TypeFromString usage less cumbersome?
We could add a explicit
VIR_XXXXX_INVALID = -1,
entry to every single enum, which will force the compiler to
always use a signed int for representing the enum.
That would force us to add that to all switch statements with the
correct type, which seems a waste.