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I am using eclipse debugger , I added some variables to the watch to check how they change through the code , the problem is I want to see these variables as the enum values I gave to them in the code and not the int value ? thanks for helping

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so let's say you have

enum myEnum {
    TheFirst=0, TheSecond=10
};

and now you want to see the name instead of the value (eg. TheFirst instead of 0)? I don't think that's possible because in c++ enums are resolved at compile-time which means the "names" are non-existent at runtime. That makes it indistinguishable from a normal int.

related Question on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9150550/3611557

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  • yes this is exactly what i want , but I am coding C not C++... the only reason i wrote c++ is because I think its sthg about the editor and not the compiler . thanks anyway – yaboty May 23 '14 at 13:23