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On 29/08/2024 10:28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:32:49 +0100
> Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> I don’t think I’d fault either decision though the fact that we’ve ended
>> up with two conventions does make writing/maintaining portable code a
>> bit more annoying,
> 
> 	Portable code should only rely on the standards not
> implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the
> standard.
> 
> 	There are always the int<n>_t types for when size matters.
> 

Yes, from what I remember of the 90s, Microsoft code used typedefs, 
Int32, Int64 or maybe even Macros for types. Big projects sometimes used 
their own typedefs. I never liked it. I used int and long, but I 
recognised my code was suboptimal.

Then I moved to Csharp and Java and stop worrying :-).

C was shit, for not making types explicit, subsequent OS software 
developers were just polishing the turd.