You and others seem to be missing that he is talking about the default 'int' type. If you want a specific overflow behavior, he implies that would be under a d

You and others seem to be missing that he is talking about the default 'int' type. If you want a specific overflow behavior, he implies that would be under a different name. I agree -- 'int' doesn't need to be the type that maps most efficiently to the hardware, even in a "systems language". It can and should be a fairly efficient type that has reasonable semantics.