unassigned values for enums should be smarter about finding new options
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Description
Someone at the rust meetup pointed out to me that code like this does not compile today:
#[repr(u16)]
enum Foo {
A,
B = 14,
C,
D = 15,
}
The issue is that we attempt to assign the value 15 to C based on it falling immediately after B.
The workaround I suggested was to move the C to the end of the series (or elsewhere), so that it would be assigned a value other than 15.
It seems we could backwards-compatibly support this, by being smarter in how we search for values to assign to otherwise unassigned variants.
(However, it is noteworthy that the semantics of the above enum that I am suggesting does not match that of C semantics, at least not according to gcc, which happily assigns 15 to both C and D, as the C language has no problem with that.)
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100