To be fair, the AVR and STM8 code I’ve got out of GCC and SDCC when feeding them normal (non-8-bitter-adapted) C also sucked—though not to the point of building

To be fair, the AVR and STM8 code I’ve got out of GCC and SDCC when feeding them normal (non-8-bitter-adapted) C also sucked—though not to the point of building strings—because the default promotion to int required by the standard really hurts when the minimum required 16-bit int does not fit into a register.