Yeah it's al lukewarm endorsement of int, quite possibly there only to accommodate legacy code. "<stdint.h> defines types like int16_t, uint32_t, int64_t, etc.

Yeah it's al lukewarm endorsement of int, quite possibly there only to accommodate legacy code. "<stdint.h> defines types like int16_t, uint32_t, int64_t, etc. You should always use those in preference to short, unsigned long long and the like, when you need a guarantee on the size of an integer. Of the C integer types, only int should be used."