enum class gives syntax error. Why?

[Sander Bouwhuis]

I have the following in a header:

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// The display monitor dimensions
struct DISPLAY_MONITOR_DIMENSIONS
{
  uint8    u8TotMonitors;
  RECT     pRect[64];
  HMONITOR phMonitors[64];

  DISPLAY_MONITOR_DIMENSIONS()
  {
    // Clear the variables
    u8TotMonitors = 0;
    memset(pRect,      NULL, sizeof(pRect));
    memset(phMonitors, NULL, sizeof(phMonitors));
  }
};

// The taskbar position
enum class TASKBAR_POS
{
  left,   // The taskbar is on the left side of the screen
  top,    // The taskbar is on the top side of the screen
  right,  // The taskbar is on the right side of the screen
  bottom  // The taskbar is on the bottom side of the screen
};

// Function prototypes
MISCELLANEOUS_EXP void        AppendTextToEditBox(HWND hWndEditbox, const wchar_t *pwcNewText, int32 i32Len = -1);
MISCELLANEOUS_EXP bool        CheckMemProblem(int8 *pi8Mem, int32 i32Bytes);
MISCELLANEOUS_EXP void        ClipRect(RECT *pRc, const RECT *pRcClip);
MISCELLANEOUS_EXP bool        CopyDataToClipboard(const void *pvData, int32 i32Len, uint32 u32Format = CF_UNICODETEXT);

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I get 'syntax error' on this line:
enum class TASKBAR_POS

I'm using enum class in other places and I don't get any error there, so enum class seems to be supported by CppCheck.
Can someone tell me why I'm getting a syntax error?

[Daniel Marjamäki]

I don't know. And I can't reproduce with your code. Can you reproduce if you just put that code in a file and check it? Or is more stuff required?

[versat]

See https://sourceforge.net/p/cppcheck/discussion/general/thread/8d40c994/
Is your "enum class" in a .h file? Cppcheck parses .h files as C code and there is no enum class in C.
You can force Cppcheck to parse it as C++ code with --language=c++. Does it work then?

[Adnan Shaheen]

I updated to 1.87 from 1.86. Now I am having this issue. I tried to use the fix --language=c++, but doesn't work

[Sergey Burgsdorf]

Hello!
Having the same problem on 1.87.

MyHeaderFile.h

namespace MyNameSpace
{
  enum ErrorCode
  {

CPPcheck reports a syntax error on the Enum line. --language=c++ doesn't help.
The error is reported regardless if "enum" or "enum class" is used.

[Robert Reif]

Do you have: #define ErrorCode something or typedef something ErrorCode; somewhere?

[Adnan Shaheen]

My problem was fixed, because the enums were already declared in another library that I was using.

enum class attr {
    text,
    file
    ...
};

These were already used, so when I changed the names in enum, my problem was resolved.