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Why couldn't they? C had already existed for a couple of decades when 32-bit machines started getting popular. `int`, as the default integer type, usually is th
by Sharlin 7y ago
Why couldn't they? C had already existed for a couple of decades when 32-bit machines started getting popular. `int`, as the default integer type, usually is the size of the machine word for best performance. It would make no sense to have slow, emulated 32-bit ´int`s on a 16-bit system, never mind 8-bit ones.