cocoa - Objective-C Enumeration, NS_ENUM & NS_OPTIONS

Question

What's the correct way to create an enumeration with a specific type in Objective-C? How does NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS work? NS_OPTIONS are used for masks, like NSAutoresizing? Thanks.

Code from NSObjCRuntime.h
    #define NS_ENUM(_type, _name) enum _name : _type _name; enum _name : _type
    #define NS_OPTIONS(_type, _name) _type _name; enum : _type

Answer 1

example from NSHipster. NS_OPTIONS is used in a similar way, but for enums which would ordinarily be a bit mask

instead of

typedef enum {
    UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue1,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue2,
    UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
} UITableViewCellStyle;

or

typedef enum {
    UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue1,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue2,
    UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
};

typedef NSInteger UITableViewCellStyle;

do this:

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, UITableViewCellStyle) {
    UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue1,
    UITableViewCellStyleValue2,
    UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
};

an example NS_OPTIONS enum:

typedef NS_OPTIONS(NSUInteger, UIViewAutoresizing) {
    UIViewAutoresizingNone                 = 0,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin   = 1 << 0,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth        = 1 << 1,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin  = 1 << 2,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin    = 1 << 3,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight       = 1 << 4,
    UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin = 1 << 5
};