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2026-05-04 15:06
Automatic Enum Handling in C — Parsing, Validating and Iterating.
In a previous post, Automatic Enum Stringification in C via Build-Time Code Generation, I described how to extract enum labels and values directly from DWARF debug information at build time.
enum color { C_NONE, C_RED, C_YELLOW, C_GREEN } ;
// Request enum descriptor for e_color
ENUM_DESCRIBE(e_color, enum color)
void foo(enum color c) {
printf("Color=%s(%d)\n", ENUM_LABEL_OF(e_color, c), ...
