What is the size of an enum in C?

Question

I\'m creating a set of enum values, but I need each enum value to be 64 bits wide. If I recall correctly, an enum is generally the same size as an int; but I thought I read

Answer 1

In C language, an enum is guaranteed to be of size of an int. There is a compile time option (-fshort-enums) to make it as short (This is mainly useful in case the values are not more than 64K). There is no compile time option to increase its size to 64 bit.