14:19:37gingeraleI wonder if it's leftovers from BCPL or something
14:20:48ShinmeraWell, if I remember correctly C was designed for the PDP-11 and then it just took off arbitrarily from there before getting standardised
14:21:16Shinmeraso the blame on types being different is probably on the people who first ported it
14:21:56gingeraleAh, fair enough. And gcc is now what? Version 8?