I work with a MSVC guy who not only didn't know about stdint, but also thought/thinks that 'word' means 16 bits, and insists that the WORD typedef is more porta

I work with a MSVC guy who not only didn't know about stdint, but also thought/thinks that 'word' means 16 bits, and insists that the WORD typedef is more portable than uint16_t. Still, at least nowadays there is no excuse -- everything from TI to VC++ supports stdint variations.