On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Dave Tweed wrote: > My memory's a little hazy on this point, but doesn't the C standard state= that > compile-time operations are to be done with the largest available size of= each > type; i.e., longs for integers and doubles for floating-point? No. Anything smaller than an "int" is promoted to "int", and there's nothing special about "compile-time operations." -- John W. Temples, III --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .