I generally agree. I'm speaking more from the implementor's side: if you do ILP64, then you either won't have one of 8, 16, or 32-bit integers, or you'll have t

I generally agree. I'm speaking more from the implementor's side: if you do ILP64, then you either won't have one of 8, 16, or 32-bit integers, or you'll have to make some non-standard type to cover the gap. LP64 and LLP64 let you cover all the sizes you typically want with the standard types. That is, I assume, why 32-bit int on 64-bit systems is so common.