[avr-chat] The silent death of -mint8

[Ruud Vlaming]

Folks,

It has happened: mint8 is dead. At least it cries from its grave,
for when you compile (>=4.5.1) with the option it roars with thunder:

  <built-in>:0:0: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
  Please submit a full bug report,
  with preprocessed source if appropriate.
  See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.

what a wunderfull end:
  "You try to kick me out huh?
  well let me kick you out!".

Btw, it was not all that silent, if you know where to look:
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46261

But i regret it although mint8 was a hack; we had no other 
decent option to do 8 bit arithmetic. In the rush of getting
the gcc compiler better...stronger...faster they seem to
forget that there developers out there who still want to
press there code into a few KB. 

Would it be possible at all to extend gcc in such a way that
it would support 8 bit arithmetic? 

Ruud