24-bit int

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 19:39:14 UTC, EntangledQuanta 
wrote:
> Is there a way to create a 24-bit int? One that for all 
> practical purposes acts as such? This is for 24-bit stuff like 
> audio. It would respect endianness, allow for arrays int24[] 
> that work properly, etc.

Hi,

Probably you are looking for bitpack ndslice topology:
http://docs.algorithm.dlang.io/latest/mir_ndslice_topology.html#.bitpack

sizediff_t[] data;
// creates a packed signed integer slice with max allowed value 
equal to `2^^24 - 1`.
auto packs = data[].sliced.bitpack!24;

packs has the same API as D arrays

Package is Mir Algorithm
http://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-algorithm

Best,
Ilya