Question

I have to pack some enumerations to byte array (char*) and send over network. Is possible to set 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?)

Answer 1

This is only possible with C++11 strongly typed enums:

enum class MyEnum : unsigned char { E1, E2 };

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