A very long time ago, the Microsoft C/C++ compiler used 16 bit ints. I had a boss that insisted we use long instead of int because he had been burned by this.

A very long time ago, the Microsoft C/C++ compiler used 16 bit ints. I had a boss that insisted we use long instead of int because he had been burned by this. Hadn't been a problem for at least 20 years, but that didn't matter to him.