The fact that we have all these different 64 bit data models demonstrates clearly how the connection between word size and C types is completely arbitrary and l

The fact that we have all these different 64 bit data models demonstrates clearly how the connection between word size and C types is completely arbitrary and largely meaningless. And this is not specific to 64 bit either, same sort of thing happens on 8 bit platforms too. So you can not rely on `int` (or any other type) being word sized. Furthermore I argue that word size is not really something that makes sense to even expose at language level, the whole concept of word size is somewhat questionable. CPUs operate on all sort of things that can have different sizes, trying to reduce that to single "word size" is futile.