[MOAB-dev] iMesh and enum types

[Tim Tautges]

Because languages don't generally guarantee how many bytes an enum will 
have.  Now, you being a smart guy, you'll point out that int doesn't 
necessarily have a deterministic size either.  What these should really 
be is long (if we wanted ultimate determinism, we'd use int_32 or 
somesuch, but I think that would harm compatibility with fortran).

- tim

Jed Brown wrote:
> Why does iMesh.h use plain int for all the enum types?  That is, why
> does the interface not use the enums for types, topologies, and storage
> order?  This means that if the user declares their types using the
> enums, they need to cast to int when using the iMesh interface.
> 
> Jed

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