24-bit int

[solidstate1991 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.

If you need to perform math on integer audio, I strongly suggest 
to use int32 for this purpose to avoid performance degradation, 
then convert back to int24 when you're finished. Probably going 
to add such feature into my PCM library.