How to define a built-in 24-bit type?

[Georg-Johann Lay]

Richard Henderson schrieb:
> On 01/21/2012 01:48 AM, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
> 
>>FRACTIONAL_INT_MODE (PSI, 24, 3);
> 
> Unrelated to everything else, I'm not sure you want a *fractional* mode.
> You're using all bits of the 3 bytes of storage.  Fractional modes are
> those where there are unused bits of the in-memory representation.  E.g.
> when a 20 bit quantity is stored in 3 bytes.

Yes you are right. All bits are used and it should be an int mode. I 
tried that back then but it shred the compiler, so that I used the 
partial mode and then it worked...

Johann