Index: parserthread.cpp
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--- parserthread.cpp    (revision 9745)
+++ parserthread.cpp    (working copy)
@@ -2369,6 +2369,7 @@
     bool isEnumClass = false;
     int lineNr = m_Tokenizer.GetLineNumber();
     wxString token = m_Tokenizer.GetToken();
+    wxString underlying_type(_T("int"));
     if (token == ParserConsts::kw_class)
     {
         token = m_Tokenizer.GetToken();
@@ -2396,6 +2397,18 @@
     if (   wxIsalpha(token.GetChar(0))
         || (token.GetChar(0) == ParserConsts::underscore_chr) )
     {
+        if (m_Tokenizer.PeekToken() == ParserConsts::colon) {
+          // support strictly typed named enums
+          // enum XXX : some_type { ... }
+          m_Tokenizer.GetToken(); // eat colon
+          underlying_type = m_Tokenizer.PeekToken();
+          if (wxIsalpha(underlying_type.GetChar(0))
+              || token.GetChar(0) == ParserConsts::underscore_chr) {
+            // ignore type identifier
+            m_Tokenizer.GetToken();
+          }
+        }
+
         if (m_Tokenizer.PeekToken().GetChar(0) != ParserConsts::opbrace_chr)
         {
             if (TokenExists(token, m_LastParent, tkEnum))