The lack of standard for 1+2 is the complaint here. Prefixing in the libraries is a workaround to make it possible at all for their separate (but similar) basic types to co-exist, but the libraries shouldn't have to define sane basic types for these things. At most they should have to add extended operations.

But because they don't, it must be reimplemented in each library that needs them, which adds to code size and semantic overhead. Which might be helpful is for a good basic type library to be created which could be a common dependency for each (perhaps host it on CCAN), but the fact that this would be needed at all is the base complaint.