And I know of (and personally used) a compiler for an 8-bit MCU that allowed 24-bit integers. Not to speak of DSPs which actually have such "odd" register sizes, and thus "int" sizes. This flexibility in data sizes is one of the crucial properties of this language, that makes it suited for bare-metal and OS development. If you remember, the latter was actually the incentive to create C in the first place.
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