>> In assembly, you don't even "specify" how big a given data item is. This
>> is an implicit property of what instructions you use on that data.
>> Assembly isn't even high-level enough to pretend that it has data types.
>> It just supports what the hardware supports.
>
>    Hence you are contradicting yourself. You *don't* have "total control"
> if you can't even specify the size of your integrals.

You have total control over what the size of the integrals is. It's just 
that you don't explicitly write this down as "please declare a variable 
X bits wide". You do it implicitly, by using instructions that operate 
on a certain width. (And it's then of course wonderfully easy to get 
things horribly wrong...)

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