That's certainly a valid approach, but I've never actually seen those used in practice. I guess, like me, people are lazy and prefer typing just int, which is g

That's certainly a valid approach, but I've never actually seen those used in practice. I guess, like me, people are lazy and prefer typing just int, which is guaranteed to be at least 16 bits, and is generally the fastest int type (well, excepting some 8-bit archs.. :P).