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by Joker_vD
1020 days ago
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The int was supposed to be the native word size. So 16-bit on 286 and earlier, 32-bit on 386 and later, and 64-bit on x64. Except, of course, int has been 32 bits for so long on x86 (which has been the single most important ISA for just as long), and short was 16-bit for even longer that moving to 64-bit-wide int and 32-bit-wide short (which is what x64 naturally suited for) was just impossible, so it didn't happen, we're stuck with LP64 (on Linux) and LLP64 (on Windows) data models. |
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