rust-lang/rfcs — pull request #161 by 1fish2 (2014-07-12 05:00:37+00:00)
Title: RFC: int/uint portability to 16-bit CPUs

Both Issue #14758 and Issue #9940 call for RFCs.

This RFC summarizes those discussions, explains the core issue of
code portability to 16-bit CPUs (also of 64-bit code to 32-bit CPUs),
explains what's meant by "default" integer types, makes 2 specific
proposals, and proposes coding style for integer sizing.