Check if a value is defined in an C enum?

The easiest way to do this is:

---

enum {
    MODE_A,
    MODE_B,
    MODE_C
};

int modeValid(int mode)
{
    int valid = 0;

    switch(mode) {
        case MODE_A:
        case MODE_B:
        case MODE_C:
            valid = 1;
    };

    return valid;
}

void setMode(int mode)
{
    if (modeValid(mode)) {
        // Blah, blah
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    setMode(1);   // Okay
    setMode(500); // Error
}

Not to the best of my knowledge. An enum in C is just a cleaner alternative to a series of

#define A 0x2E

statements.

If the enum is large and its values happen to be continuous, declare min/max constants and compare to those:

enum { E_MIN = 0x2E, A = 0x2E, B = 0x23, C = 0x40 ..., E_MAX=0x100};

if(x >= MIN && x <= MAX)
    ItsInEnum();

This is kind of a modified version of your question, but depending on what you're doing, something like this might work:

enum {A,B,C};
const int E[] = {0x2E,0x23,0x40};
// Or:
// enum { A = 0x2E, B = 0x23, C = 0x40 };
// const int E[] = {A,B,C};

int isEnum(int x)
{
    for(int i=0; i<(sizeof(E)/sizeof(*E)); i++)
    {
        if(E[i] == x){ return 1; }
    }
    return 0;
}

int main(void)
{
    printf("Value of A: 0x%02x\n", E[A]);
    // Or:   
    // printf("Value of A: 0x%02x\n", A);

    printf("isEnum(0x2e): %s\n", isEnum(0x2e) ? "true" : "false");
    printf("isEnum(0x2f): %s\n", isEnum(0x2f) ? "true" : "false");
}

which outputs

Value of A: 0x2e
isEnum(0x2e): true
isEnum(0x2f): false

EDIT: TJD beat me to it, and his suggestion of using a sorted array and doing binary search would decrease your search time from n to log(n).