On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, John Dammeyer wrote:

> And why in the world would you install integer promotions on an 8 bit
> processor for a language designed for 16 bits?

Because it makes your code behave in a standard and portable way.

The fact that C18's implementation of integer promotions is abysmal
does not mean that that integer promotions are inappropriate for an
eight-bit processor.  Other PIC compilers always have integer
promotions enabled and incur little or no penalty as a result.

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John W. Temples, III
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