24-bit int

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 22:10:43 UTC, Biotronic wrote:
> 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.
>
> I haven't looked at endianness beyond it working on my 
> computer. If you have special needs in that regard, consider 
> this a starting point:

big endian is indeed problematic.

>     @property
>     int value(int x) {
>         _payload = (cast(ubyte*)&x)[0..3];
>         return value;
>     }
>

will not work on big endian machine.

     version(BigEndian)
         _payload = (cast(ubyte*)&x)[1..4];