Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

But, in Verilog, it is not uncommon to go well outside of the usual 64- bit limit that C typically imposes

Yes, all kinds of hardware structures use bit vectors >64. They also tend to have a reasonable upper limit as muxing from a bit vector can be expensive.

 But, "32kb" in a single bit-vector should probably be enough for anyone...
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I would be tempted to allow an 'int' (size_t?) to be used for the size.
For software bit vectors could be larger than for hardware. For example, I used a bit-pair vector to hold a ternary value representing memory pages for something called a page-allocation-map (PAM) which tracks which pages are allocated or free, and the end of an allocation. There could be a lot of pages in a large memory system. Scanning the bit-pair vector could be done mostly a word-at-a-time. Same thing could be done for disk pages.