uninitialized enum variable value

Question

I declare new type DAY by using enum and then declare two variable from it day1 and day2, then I was supposed to see values between 0 to 6 when I used them uninitialized since the values were between 0 to 6 in enumlist , but I receive these values instead -858993460.

can you explain me why I receive these values instead of 0 to 6?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    enum DAY{SAT,SUN,MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI};
    DAY day1,day2;

    cout<<int(day1)<<endl<<day1<<endl;
    cout<<int(day2)<<endl<<day2<<endl;

    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

An enumeration is not constrained to take only the declared values.

It has an underlying type (a numeric type at least large enough to represent all the values), and can, with suitable dodgy casting, be given any value representable by that type.

Additionally, using an uninitialised variable gives undefined behaviour, so in principle anything can happen.

Answer 2

Because those variables are uninitialised; their values are indeterminate. Therefore, you're seeing the result of undefined behaviour.