XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   BGB  writes:   
   >If 'int' were 64-bits, then what about 16 and/or 32 bit types.   
   >   short short?   
   >   long short?   
      
   Of course int16_t uint16_t int32_t uint32_t   
      
   On what keywords should these types be based?  That's up to the   
   implementor.  In C23 one could   
      
   typedef signed _BitInt(16) int16_t   
      
   etc.  Around 1990, one would have just followed the example of "long   
   long" of accumulating several modifiers.  I would go for 16-bit   
   "short" and 32-bit "long short".   
      
   - anton   
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