Iterating over non-incremental Enum

Question

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I need to be able to dynamically iterate over an enum that has non-incre

Answer 1

It is about tricky and more C than C++ practice, but you can use X macros. It is very ugly and you need to keep TABLE in right order. In C++ I believe we don't need to iterate over enumerations and more we don't need to assign values to enumeration (ostensibly enumeration value is random in every compilation). So think of it as a joke :)

#include 

#define CAPI_SUBTYPE_TABLE \
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_X(CAPI_SUBTYPE_NULL,     0 ) \
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_X(CAPI_SUBTYPE_DIAG_DFD, 1 ) \
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_X(CAPI_SUBTYPE_DD_ALL,   13)

#define CAPI_SUBTYPE_X(name, value) name = value,
enum CAPI_SUBTYPE
{
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_TABLE
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_END
};
#undef CAPI_SUBTYPE_X

#define CAPI_SUBTYPE_X(name, value) name,
CAPI_SUBTYPE subtype_iteratable[] =
{
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_TABLE
    CAPI_SUBTYPE_END
};
#undef CAPI_SUBTYPE_X

#define CAPI_SUBTYPE_SIZE  (sizeof(subtype_iteratable) / sizeof(subtype_iteratable[0]) - 1)


int main()
{
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < CAPI_SUBTYPE_SIZE; ++i)
        std::cout << subtype_iteratable[i] << std::endl; // 0, 1, 13
}