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Not using enum{} because SIZE_MAX exceeds integer and I do not really like how enum definition is described in C99: 1. Even though all values must fit into the chosen type (6.7.2.2, p 4) the type to choose is still implementation-defined. 2. 6.4.4.3 explicitly states that “an identifier declared as an enumeration constant has type `int`”. So it looks like “no matter what type was chosen for enumeration, constants will be integers”. Yet the following simple program: #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stddef.h> enum { X=SIZE_MAX }; int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("x:%zu m:%zu t:%zu v:%zu", sizeof(X), sizeof(SIZE_MAX), sizeof(size_t), (size_t)X); } yields one of the following using different compilers: - clang/gcc/pathcc: `x:8 m:8 t:8 v:18446744073709551615` - pcc/tcc: `x:4 m:8 t:8 v:1844674407370955161` If I remove the cast of X to size_t then pcc/tcc both yield `x:4 m:8 t:8 v:4294967295`, other compilers’ output does not change. All compilers were called with `$compiler -std=c99 -xc -` (feeding program from echo), except for `tcc` which has missing `-std=c99`. `pcc` seems to ignore the argument though: it is perfectly fine with `-std=c1000`.