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Comment by s28l

I don't think that's true. Neither C nor C++ would allow you to invoke a function with an incomplete type, regardless of whether it is a `struct` or an `enum`, so there's no ABI issues with forward declaring them, but you wouldn't be able to define or invoke a function that takes an incomplete type argument by value.

    struct A;
    enum B; // as you pointed out, not allowed by the C++ standard

    // fine to declare, define, and invoke
    void fooA(struct A*);
    void fooB(enum B*);

    // ok to forward declare, but you can't call them
    void barA(struct A);
    void barB(enum B);
parent s28l 4 years ago

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