Quoting Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com>:
But as noted the C++ standard prefers integral type, so might as well standardize on that when talking about C or C++.
I think it also helps clarity to speak of integral types. I.e. in the C family of languages, 'char' is an integral type, but you may not use the 'int' keyword for a 'char' declaration.
