Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Why does prefs_register_enum_preference use type gint and not type enum?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Is there a reason, that the var parameter of the 
> prefs_register_enum_preference() function in epan/prefs.h is of type 
> gint and not of type enum (as I would expected it)?

"enum" isn't a type, it's a class of types, just as "struct" and "union" 
are.  You can't declare something as just an "enum", you'd have to 
declare it as being a *particular* enum - and for enumerated 
preferences, there's no single type of enum that'd be appropriate, the 
type would depend on the preference.