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Report #: 92477

Status: Closed

DCC doesn't emit underlying enum types

Project: C++Builder

Build #: 15.0

Version: 15.1

Submitted By: Luis Branca

Report Type: Minor failure / Design problem

Date Reported: 3/22/2011 10:57:04 AM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 282349

Resolution: Fixed (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 16.0.4201.40972

Duplicate of: None

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Description

Forward declaration for enums generated by the delphi compiler is not currently possible because it's underlying type is missing. This could have been implemented since D2009, because of it's partial support for C++0x (which brought that feature into the C++ realm).

Currently it's still not possible to forward declare some enums from the VCL like TFieldType, TFieldKind, TLocateOption because auto generated hpp's do not propagate their underlying type as in:

enum TFieldType : BYTE { ftUnknown, (...), ftSingle };
enum TFieldKind : BYTE { fkData, fkCalculated, fkLookup, fkInternalCalc, fkAggregate };
enum TLocateOption : BYTE { loCaseInsensitive, loPartialKey };

This really would open the way to have extremely clean and lean headers (and way faster compilations).

More information in
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=324731#324731

Steps to Reproduce:

To bypass inclusion of Db.hpp on a header, try to use

  namespace Db { // #include <DB.hpp>
    enum TLocateOption : BYTE;
  } using Db::TLocateOption;

it won't compile (type mismatch?).
There is no way on the C++ specs to forward declare an enum it we do not specify it's underlying type.

Workarounds

Manually edit and patch all auto generated enums from VCL's .hpp files that we intend to use on forward declarations, adding the missing underlying type (as exemplified above).

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