Reply by mfilippa77 December 10, 20052005-12-10
Hello,

I mostly use integers in my apps with a DSP56F801. Today I realized
that all my "char" types are the same as all my "int" types.

I checked the Targetting manual and it says that basically there are
two possible sizes:

16bit: bool, char, short int, int (unsigned or signed)
32bit: long int (unsigned or signed)

Question: there is no data type for 8bit data? is there any advantage
of using all types (char, int, short) or just make them all ints and
simplify the code?

Thanks
Mariano