> I disagree. I'm glad they didn't -- we may have been stuck with 2 byte ints and 4 byte longs! At least then "long" would have a usage, whereas currently it's

> I disagree. I'm glad they didn't -- we may have been stuck with 2 byte ints and 4 byte longs! At least then "long" would have a usage, whereas currently it's entirely dead & useless, and it'd be much easier to deal with printf's string formatting than the PRId64 nonsense. The named-size types (int32_t, etc..) are king anyway