Re: [avr-gcc-list] Byte int

[E. Weddington]

On 12 Mar 2003 at 15:41, Larry Barello wrote:

> Sorry for asking this.  I really did try to find this in the GCC
> documentation.
> 
> How do I tell the compiler I want the default int to be a byte?  This
> is for switch & logic stuff for one of the smaller chips (typically
> everything is promoted to int before doing comparisons or returning
> values).
> 
> Please include the pointer to where I can read about this next time.
> 

-mint8
which you *don't* want to do as it is totally unsupported by avr-libc 
and will cause problems. I think the avr-libc docs (maybe the FAQ) 
talks a little about this.

Eric