Enum inheriting from int

Question

I\'ve found this all over the place in this code:

public enum Blah: int
{
    blah = 0,
    blahblah = 1
}

Why would it need to inherit fro

Answer 1

Most of the time I don’t care if an enum is signed or unsigned, or how many bits it has, so I just let the system use it’s default that is int.

However there are times when I do care that the enum is a signed 32 bit int, and then it is good to make it clear that I do care. I would expect a comment as well spelling out why I care.