Last Updated: January 01, 2017
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Using C enums in Rust

If you try to use an enum in an extern C function declaration you'll get a warning:

found enum type without foreign-function-safe representation annotation in foreign module, #[warn(ctypes)] on by default

What Rust is trying to say is that C and Rust may use different integer sizes for the enum, so you need to tell Rust to use size same as C. You do that with #[repr(C)] annotation:

#[repr(C)]
enum Foo {
    BAR, BAZ, QUZ,
}