i mean, if sizeof(int8_t) varied, noone would even try to use C as a lingua franca. I, as the programmer, would never expose unknown width integer types, but ot

i mean, if sizeof(int8_t) varied, noone would even try to use C as a lingua franca. I, as the programmer, would never expose unknown width integer types, but other things still will, and I'll be forced to interact with them. Allowing such things to even be present in an ABI is just horrible.