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Transcendence meme template

function main() {...}

int main() {...}

void main() {...}

U0 main() {...}

/* HolyC example */
U0 Main()
{
  U8 *message = "hello world";
  "%s\n",message;
}
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[–] labsin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

In c they do indeed just mean shorter and longer int as the size of the int is defined by the compiler and target and originally represented the hardware.

There are types like int32_t or int_least16_t.