I have to pack some enumerations to byte array (char*
) and send over network. Is it possible to set the default type for enum
to be unsigned char
? (I can now cast or use & 0xff
to extract first byte/char, but that requires additional operations so is there any way to solve this at definition of enum
?)
This is only possible with C++11 strongly typed enums:
enum class MyEnum : unsigned char { E1, E2 };
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