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		quelsolaar 12 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mista... At the time its was probably very hard to know what the fixed sizes should be.
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pjmlp 12 hours ago [–]

PL/I among other systems languages predating C, had the ability to explicitly define bit sizes for its types.

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