On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 21:44, Jonathan Wakely <cxx_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 21:32, enh via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > (https://isocpp.org/std/submit-issue led me to believe there isn't a
> > public bug database, and i should send a mail here.)
> >
> > clang recently started warning about using scoped enums as arguments
> > to varargs functions without a cast. this caused a lot of warning spam
> > in Android, and a lot of confusion as to why there's even a warning
> > here.
>
> Is this about varargs functions in general, or printf?
>
> I think it's intentional they don't promote when passed via varargs.
> Why should you get implicit conversions from scoped enumeration types
> when they don't implicitly convert under any other circumstances?
>
> So they get passed as their original type. For a general varargs
> function you write yourself, there's no problem passing a scoped enum
> as long as you extract it with that type:
>
> #include <stdarg.h>
>
> enum class E { E1 };
> void f(int i ...) {
> va_list v;
> va_start(v, i);
> E e = va_arg(v, E);

Pretend I did va_end(v) there.

> }
>
> int main()
> {
> f(0, E::E1);
> }
>
> But for printf, you get undefined behaviour, because printf doesn't
> know how to extract that type and it expects an int, a double, a
> pointer, or whatever.