Feature Request

[L C]

I have a request for a compile line option for gcc. I hope this is a 
good place to put it...

I'd like to request an option to disable the promotion of chars (signed 
and unsigned) to ints when doing arithmetic calculations on them. I 
realize this is non-ANSI standard, but it would be particularly valuable 
when working with 8-bit processors such as the AVR. (Ie., big speed 
boost and code size reduction).

Thanks.