>>Have you ever found you needed a 24 bit integer datatype and wished PICC had
>>support for it?
>
> Frequently. There are many cases where 16 bits isn't quite enough but 32 is wasteful.
> Probably less of an issue on the PIC18, but on the 16 series, RAM is usually the first thing you run
> out of.

For me that's "sometimes". In those cases I use 3 byte structs for storage
and the built-in 32 bit routines for the calculations. I've never had a
case where the additional resources that were needed to do the 32 bit
calculations (temp register, instruction cycles) were a problem.

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