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Sizeof Enum

The same sizeof operator that we've talked about works on enums.

Generally, enums in C are the same size as an int. However, if an enum value exceeds the range of an int, the C compiler will use a larger integer type to accommodate the value, such as an unsigned int or a long.

unsigned int doesn't represent negative numbers, so it can represent larger positive numbers.
long is just a larger integer type than int, so it can represent larger numbers.

Just Fancy Integers

Enums are often used to represent the possibilities in a set. For example:

SMALL = 0
MEDIUM = 1
LARGE = 2
EXTRA_LARGE = 3

Your code probably cares a lot about which size a variable represents, but it probably doesn't care that SMALL happens to be 0 under the hood. From the compiler's perspective, enums are just fancy integers.

Assignment

At the start of main(), print the size of the two enums already defined for you, in the format:

The size of BigNumbers is Y bytes
The size of HttpErrorCode is X bytes

Remember that %zu is the format specifier for size_t.