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> Basically today, all machines you can afford to buy ... have word
> sizes which are a power of 2,

Ha!  No.  I've done a few GCC ports to microcontrollers with odd
register/pointer/whatever sizes.  I'm in the middle of proposing a new
mechanism inside gcc to have target-defined not-power-of-two types,
too.