If you’re going to allocate like that you could use 8s and get any multiple you like, no? I’ll give you that there are times for performance you want the nativ

If you’re going to allocate like that you could use 8s and get any multiple you like, no? I’ll give you that there are times for performance you want the native system type. But I would still prefer to use uint32_t and specify this was optimized for a 32bit system.