### ANSI types

Most other PIC compilers consider the type `int` as a 16 bit integer. I prefer to consider it as 8 bit, because, as stated by the C language definition the `int` type represents the natural integer for the target processor. This definition guarantee to gain optimal performances from the processor when an `int` is used. PIC-18 devices are based on 8 bit data registers, so I suppose that an `int` should be coded on 8 bits for this kind of processor.

People who are not happy with 8 bit `int`s, or `unsigned long long` declarations, can use the standard ANSI types declared (with a `typedef` instruction) in the `<types.h>` header file as following:

cpik type | ANSI type
`char` | `char_t`
`unsigned char` | `uchar_t`
`int` | `int8_t`
`unsigned int` | `uint8_t`
`long` | `int16_t`
`unsigned long` | `uint16_t`
`unsigned long` | `size_t`
`long long` | `int32_t`
`unsigned long long` | `uint32_t`