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Does anyone know the size of an enum?

If i have

enum foo
{
    YES,
    NO,
    MAYBE
};

is that 1 byte, but if i had 10 enumerations would that be 2 bytes, and so on? Thanks.

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>Does anyone know the size of an enum?

std::cout<< sizeof ( foo ) <<'\n';

>is that 1 byte, but if i had 10 enumerations would that be 2 bytes, and so on?
The number of constants doesn't change the size of the enum.

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