Re: [GD-General] The joy of type aliasing and C

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

> but for sanity sake, standards could just add int16, int32 etc. and
> get over with the mess. Am I wrong?

They already have.  As of C99, there's <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> 
which had a host of types, including int16_t, uint32_t, etc.  There 
are also "fast" versions that are "at least this size, but may be 
larger", and constant macros for 64-bit values.

Brian