[Icc-avr] 3 byte long?

[Johan H. Bodin]

Yes! That would be a nice addition to the "standard C types"!

It has been done in the PIC world... BKND compilers supports
single bit and 24-bit variables in addition to the usual ones.

Regards
Johan


Ira wrote:
> I'm working on a project and I'd rather not go to the next bigger 
> processor. The easiest place to save space would be if there was an easy 
> way to implement 3 byte longs. I could do it all by hand but the code 
> gets so much messier and know in this code that the fourth byte will 
> never be anything but zero.  Am I dreaming or has this been done?
> 
> Ira