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		vardump on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwi... 24-bit floats "FP24" at least have been a thing in some ATI graphics cards (R300 & R420) 15+ years ago. Some DSPs have also used (some still do?) 24-bit word width. These odd word widths are anything but common, though.

ajtulloch on April 23, 2020 [–]

Modern AMD GPUs still support 24 bit integers, see https://rocm.github.io/GCN_Float16.html.

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