Question

I have a situation where I’m declaring multiple related typedef enums in my constants file:

typedef enum 
{
    AnimalTypeBear,
    AnimalTypeBunny,
    MemeTypeCount
} 
AnimalType;

typedef enum 
{
    FishTypeSalmon,
    FishTypeTrout,
    FishTypeCount
} 
FishType;

Now I’d like to define a parameter for an initializer called type that can take in both of these typedef enums as a parameter. I’m currently defining type as an NSUInteger and I keep getting 0 no matter which type I send into the initializer (ie FishTypeTrout should be 1 but it is 0). What type of object should type be to work for both enter code heretypeDef enums?

Answer 1

I’m not 100% certain what you’re asking, but I tried the following code:

typedef enum AnimalType : NSUInteger
{
    AnimalTypeBear,
    AnimalTypeBunny,
    MemeTypeCount
} AnimalType;


typedef enum FishType : NSUInteger
{
    FishTypeSalmon,
    FishTypeTrout,
    FishTypeCount
} FishType;


void TestFunction(NSUInteger at)
{
    printf("at = %d\n",at);
}

and it prints 1 when I call TestFunction(FishTypeTrout);

Does that help?