Re: [avr-chat] The silent death of -mint8

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Klaus Rudolph wrote:

> Weddington, Eric wrote:
>
> > There aren't that many users who actually use it.
>
> I could not believe that there are many users which use -mint8 *NOT*.
> The code becomes slow and very large if this option is not set. My real
> world applications will not run without -mint8. So I simply have to use
> the old compiler versions which is not a solution.
>
> Because the optimizer never could "see" the ranges of all vars to strip
> them down to 8bit the only option is to have something like mint8. As I

If you know it, you could inform the compiler with a cast.

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