RE: [avr-gcc-list] char to int promotion in bitwise operators

[Weddington, Eric]

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> People with a lot more insight experience
> and working knowledge probably do this a hunderd times faster
> than i, 

I can name them all on a single hand. And they are all busy, or no longer 
active. There needs to be more people who get actively involved.


> so the only thing i wanted to point out is that this
> wish (calculus with 8 bit ints) exists among many programmers.

And this has been known for several years.