cpp-style: Elaborate on cases for using explicitly-sized types

Explicitly-sized types (uintX_t and friends) are sometimes specified in
non-hardware interfaces we don't control, so using such types for
variables used with such interfaces can be appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
Change-Id: I6dd09c93b978f8bb9b8748eb4a0c39537f82f0f3
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