On Sunday, 20 August 2023 at 19:15:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > To be clear, my proposal would mean that size_t would be an > alias for ushort, and ptrdiff_t would be an alias for short. Most 16 bit machines use 32 bit sized size_t (m68k). The 16 bit size_t of x86 real mode is an anomaly.