[SAOC 2025] Improve importC Weekly Update #5
Hipreme
msnmancini at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 27 20:47:37 UTC 2025
On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 20:16:31 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 13:10:29 UTC, Emmanuel wrote:
>> I just tested a simple typedef enum code in a .c file and dmd
>> compiles it for me.
>>
>> please what have you encountered with it that you want to be
>> fixed?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I have a bigger code where I've tried to apply importC. And it
> gave me errors regarding several parts of the enum definitions
> that looked like that in the header:
> ```c
> typedef enum
> {
> kColorBlack,
> kColorWhite,
> kColorClear,
> kColorXOR
> } LCDSolidColor;
> ```
>
> In manually prepared code we've used:
> ```d
> enum LCDSolidColor {
> black,
> white,
> clear,
> xor
> }
> ```
Do not forget that enums in C works quite different than in C++.
D's enum is much more akin to C++'s `enum class`.
A conversion of a C enum into D, would have actually done:
```d
enum {
kColorBlack,
kColorWhite,
kColorClear,
kColorXOR
}
```
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